The things that are going to actually help you or me stay healthy are not necessarily the things that happen inside a doctor’s office. They’re the things that allow us to choose healthy lifestyles on a day-by-day basis. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey Read Quote
This is our bottom line: The ways we give should and will evolve to enable us to achieve greater impact to improve the health and health care of all Americans. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey Read Quote
Traditional nursing facilities are sterile institutions rather than homes – which is why many Americans do not want to live in one or want this as their only option for themselves or their family members. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey Read Quote
I think one key part of doing more with less is to be more strategic, to realize what the objectives you’re truly trying to accomplish are and then to drive with greater focus towards those objectives. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey Read Quote
Understand the ways in which your hard work is going to be necessary to achieve the goals that you want. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey Read Quote
Once I started working with older people, I realized how much I enjoyed the intellectual challenge of taking care of patients who have multiple, complex medical problems. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey Read Quote
I had an interest in health policy and a realization that, as an academic physician, one of the things you’re always looking to do is to have your clinical interests and your scholarly interests overlap and reinforce one another. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey Read Quote
Increasingly we know that we’re going to have multiple medical conditions, and the person who’s got the greatest incentive to manage those conditions is the patient him or herself. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey Read Quote
My mother was a pediatrician, and she kept busy hours. I learned from her you could pack a lot into the day. Every minute had to count, and multitasking was a given. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey Read Quote
