Preventive Care Quotes:

Each and every day health centers provide high-quality primary and preventive care to our constituents.

- Jan Schakowsky

topic: Quality, Care, Preventive Care, Primaries

Irregular contact with doctors means many men fail to receive any preventive care for potentially life-threatening conditions. In addition, when men do seek care, embarrassment can often prevent them from openly discussing health concerns with their physicians.

- Michael Dean Crapo

source: "Out Of Touch:American Men And The Health Care System" by David Sandman, Elisabeth Simantov, and Christina An, March 2000.

topic: Mean, Men, Doctors, Preventive Care

On January 1, 2006, Medicare will begin to offer a prescription drug benefit, and for the first time, it will place an emphasis on preventive care and early treatment of disease.

- Michael C. Burgess

topic: Drug, Benefits, Care, January 1, Prescriptions

You have to pay attention to who you are. You need to know your family history as well as you can. It is important for young women to have preventive care. If you catch any women's cancers early it's the difference between life and death. Do you really want to leave your kids without a mother?

- Cokie Roberts

topic: Mother, Cancer, Kids, Preventive Care

Money spent on vegetative patients is money not spent on preventive care, such as flu shots and mammograms. Each night in an ICU bed for such patients is a night that another patient with a genuine prognosis for recovery is denied such high-end care. Every dollar exhausted on patients who will never wake up again is a dollar not devoted to finding a cure for cancer.

- Jacob M. Appel

topic: Cancer, Recovery, Night, Mammograms, Prognosis