More - Richard Carmona Quotes

Obesity is the terror within. Unless we do something about it, the magnitude of the dilemma will dwarf 9-11 or any other terrorist attempt.

Richard Carmona

 Obesity

When we walked through (Monday) we saw a large, metropolitan hospital ... and patients not only receiving care but receiving the social services that they needed,

Richard Carmona

 

More teens are using marijuana at earlier ages, ... We really need to stop these trends.

Richard Carmona

 

Let's not automatically just rebuild a hospital because it had a certain amount of beds,

Richard Carmona

 

Americans are overwhelmed with the complexity of health information. We have hit a point of information overload and the public health message is being diluted.

Richard Carmona

 

Obesity is the terror within.

Richard Carmona

 Obesity

We still have several thousand children a day who start smoking every single day in this country and half of them will go on to be chronic smokers.

Richard Carmona

 Children

[Hospitals were being constructed out of the wreckage.] Four or five days ago, they were empty, hollow shells with nothing, ... When we went through, we saw large metropolitan hospitals functioning as multidisciplinary, tertiary-care facilities in convention centers.

Richard Carmona

 Hospitals

It is a contaminated soup,

Richard Carmona

 

It should be pointed out that we are a week out, and so far, so good,

Richard Carmona