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
health drug patient
Drugs don't work in patients who don't take them.
cigarette-smoke smoking our-society
Cigarette smoking is clearly identified as the chief, preventable cause of death in our society.
long choices vegan-food
Your choice of diet can influence your long term health prospects more than any other action you might take.
prayer miracle heaven
When a faith-healer commands God to perform a miracle, in the absence of a prayer that says, 'Thy will be done,' it is, as far as I am concerned, the most rank form of arrogance . . . The faith-healer Bosworth once said that faith makes God act. If you follow that line of reasoning God is in His heaven, but Bosworth rules the world!
knowledge prescriptions
The best prescription is knowledge.
snakes danger poisoning
You can't talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes.
nature kids play
If you want to say how can we step into childhood and make it better for them, I would start at the activity level. I'd like to say let your kids go out and play.
nature kids thinking
Risks I think are the thing that make life important and everything that you and I do is risk vs. benefit. Is there a risk to sending your kid out? Absolutely. Is there a benefit? It exceeds the risk.
nature kids play
I'd like to say let your kids go out and play. Then I'd say you're not going to do that are you? Make your kids go out and play.
nature growing-up kids
Make your kids go out and play. Kids ought to grow up the way you and I grew up and we grew up fifty years apart or maybe more. But we did the same things. Now who's out playing in the afternoon? Nobody.
teacher taken kids
Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class.
children impress relationships respond
One of the things we want to do is find ways, first, to impress these parents how important it is to have children in a situation where they can respond to them and, second, to bring intergenerational relationships into play.
chronic deprived error metabolism picked
They have been deprived nutritionally, or some illness has not been picked up, or they have not been screened for vision or hearing defects, or they have not had some kind of a chronic illness or error of metabolism picked up.