101 Quotes by Vivek Murthy

When you're in a pocket with low vaccination rates, that's when you find yourself at greater risk of getting measles.

I am a big basketball fan. I have been watching basketball ever since I was a young boy.

With any sort of major change we need to make in our lives, it's much easier to do it with other people. We succeed and thrive best when we work together and support each other. When we struggle alone, that's when the struggle can seem impossible.

The amount of sleep you get has an impact, not just on how you feel the next day, but it has an impact on your long-term health as well.

I do not intend to use the Surgeon General's Office as a bully pulpit for gun control.

We can work on sharpening our prescribing practices, working with clinicians to ensure we're treating pain safely and effectively.

We can no longer remain within our exam rooms and ignore what happens in our communities. As physicians and dentists, we must have a presence in both places. Our sacred responsibility is both to help the patient in front of us and also to safeguard the health of the nation.

If you use that time where you're alone in ways that bring you joy and peace, then that solitude can have a really positive effect on your life.

There are several factors in modern society that contribute to loneliness. One is that we are more mobile than we have been in decades past, which is fantastic in many respects, but also leads to us to move away from communities that we grew up with and got to know over time.