C. Everett Koop
C. Everett Koop
Charles Everett Koop, MDwas an American pediatric surgeon and public health administrator. He was a vice admiral in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, and served as the 13th Surgeon General of the United States under President Ronald Reagan from 1982 to 1989. According to the Associated Press, "Koop was the only surgeon general to become a household name."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPublic Servant
Date of Birth14 October 1916
CountryUnited States of America
C. Everett Koop quotes about
care health-care public-health
Health care is vital to all of us some of the time, but public health is vital to all of us all of the time
respect country rights
The American ideal is not that we all agree with each other, or even like each other, every minute of the day. It is rather that we will respect each other's rights, especially the right to be different, and that, at the end of the day, we will understand that we are one people, one country, and one community, and that our well-being is inextricably bound up with the well-being of each and every one of our fellow citizens.
responsibility parenting generations
Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation
health drug patient
Drugs don't work in patients who don't take them.
mother baby children
Protection of the life of the mother as an excuse for an abortion is a smoke screen. In my 36 years of pediatric surgery, I have never known of one instance where the child had to be aborted to save the mother's life. If toward the end of the pregnancy complications arise that threaten the mother's health, the doctor will induce labor or perform a Caesarean section. His intention is to save the life of both the mother and the baby. The baby's life is never willfully destroyed because the mother's life is in danger.
You might expect that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists would be there and they are.
children doctors justice
I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a doctor. The doctors I knew as a very young child must have helped to plant the desire in me, when I was as young as five or six. One homeopathic physician, Dr. Justice Gage Wright, was a great model.
country children play
The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.
children school ready
When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up.
children memorable important
Dr. Lourie's determined and compassionate advocacy led to new and improved services for thousands of children and families across the nation... the Lourie Center has rededicated itself institutionally to continuing his important work.
mother baby abortion
The baby's life is never willfully destroyed because the mother's life is in danger.
children eye parent
I might be better able to help parents of dying children, but for quite a while I felt less able, too emotionally involved. And from that time on, I could rarely discuss the death of a child without tears welling up into my eyes.