Risa Rodil Quotes

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

Are they trained to treat everyone as a servant?'
'Probably. That doesn't make you into one, ~ Sherwood Smith

I see more of what is going on around me because I am not concerned with finding a parking place. ~ Risa Mickenberg

Which is worse, Risa often wondered, to have tens of thousands of babies that no one wanted or to silently make then go away before they were even born ~ Neal Shusterman

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

Understand the ways in which your hard work is going to be necessary to achieve the goals that you want. ~ Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

It holds no fear for her now, because the shark has been tamed by the soul of a boy. No
the soul of a man. ~ Neal Shusterman

Lev looks at Risa, almost afraid to ask the obvious question. Finally he says, 'Uh ... why do we have a baby?'
'Ask him,' says Risa.
Stone-faced, Conner looks out of the window. 'They're looking for two boys and a girl. Having a baby will throw them off.'
'Great,' snaps Risa. 'Maybe we should all pick up a baby along the way. ~ Neal Shusterman

No one wants to learn an instrument, Rachel. It's grueling repetition. And besides, you're too old to start. Concert violinists who learn the traditional way begin when they're six or seven."
Risa can't help but listen to the irritating conversation taking place between the well-dressed woman and her fashionably disheveled teenage daughter.
"It's bad enough they'd be messing in my brain and giving me a NeuroWeave," the girl whines. "But why do I have to have the hands, too? I like my hands!"
The mother laughs. "Honey, you've got your father's stubby, chubby little fingers. Trading up will only do you good in life, and it's common knowledge that a musical NeuroWeave requires muscle memory to complete the brain-body connection."
"There are no muscles in the fingers!" the girl announces triumphantly. "I learned that in school."
The mother gives her a long-suffering sigh.
"Think of them like a pair of gloves, Rachel. Fancy silk gloves, like a princess wears."
Risa can't stand it anymore. Making sure she's low enough so that her face can't be seen, she gets up, and as she walks past them, she says, "You'll have someone else's fingerprints. ~ Neal Shusterman

I grew up with a real appreciation about just how wonderful and intimate the relationship is between a doctor and a patient was and the sense that this was a noble profession. ~ Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey

Progress among the youngest children is especially important because we know that preventing obesity at an early age helps young people maintain a healthy weight into adulthood. ~ Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

I have everything that I could ever need or want, in this moment and in this place and it lies within myself to be all that I was created for in this life. I will not faint and I will not falter! I shall overcome and defeat that which comes against anyone or anything that I hold dear." Risa in The Phoenix Three: No Greater Love. Scheduled for release in 2013. ~ Eilish Hawes-Fraser

The people that you work with, the organizations that are committed to the same objectives. If they know that you're in it together, and you're working towards the same objectives, and you agree on how to do more with less, you can actually have a greater impact. ~ Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

Wars have a way reinventing people. And making too many things disappear.
-Sonia ~ Neal Shusterman

Hole ... " He grips Risa's hand tighter. "Hole, Risa, hole ... " And she smiles "Yes, Connor," she says. "You're whole. You're finally whole. ~ Neal Shusterman

Safe Routes to School is one with great potential to get children walking and biking to school again. The program uses federal grants to make road and sidewalk repairs aimed at getting kids to school safely on foot or bicycle. The money also supports efforts to get the community, school officials and others involved. ~ Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

I grew up with a lot of dinner table conversations about health care and ways in which the system was inadequate for the needs of many of the patients they took care of. ~ Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey

Risa: I thought I could go on being normal without Otani, but I just can't! I'm just... I'm just no good without Otani. ~ Koizumi Risa

Keisha: They said there wasn't any resistance - how did you beat Risa?
Aki: Friendship, the heart of the cards, teamwork, and lots and lots of fire. ~ Ian Isaro

What is Medicaid all about? It's staying true to the mission: to care for people historically left behind. ~ Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

I wanted to go from seeing the individual patient to seeing the plural - the whole population as a market. You want to see the larger population, yet at the same time you need to understand the impact of decisions on individuals. ~ Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

...any guy can buy you flowers, but the one who buys you hemorrhoid cream must really, really love you. ~ Risa Green

Looks are deceiving," Risa says. "After all, when I first saw you I thought you looked reasonably intelligent. ~ Neal Shusterman

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

Don't I have a choice in this? But when she looks behind her, the answer is
clear. There are two guards waiting to make sure that she has no choice at all.
And as they lead her away, she thinks of Mr. Durkin. With a bitter laugh, Risa
realizes that he may get his wish after all. Someday he may see her hands playing
in Carnegie Hall. Unfortunately, the rest of Risa won't be there. ~ Neal Shusterman

I love you, Risa," he says. "Every last part of me. ~ Neal Shusterman

American healthcare faces a crisis in quality. There is a dangerous divide between the potential for the high level of quality care that our health system promises and the uneven quality that it actually delivers. ~ Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

Risa: You don't have to worry about me anymore because this time I'm giving up for real.
Otani:... Don't give up. ~ Koizumi Risa

He will only do the wrong thing when it's the right thing to do.. ~ Neal Shusterman

The causes of obesity are varied and complex, but the lack of daily physical activity is an important factor. ~ Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

She couldn't turn away from the eyes that held her. Eyes as deep, as Dark as the night, yet there was something that sparked with warmth, that kept those eyes from being cold. ~ Lora Leigh

I'm against solutions that are worse than the problem. Like old women who want their hair dyed the color of shoe polish to hide the gray. ~ Neal Shusterman

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

Higher costs naturally translate into fewer employers offering insurance coverage, and fewer employees accepting it, even when it is offered. ~ Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

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

We all have to learn how to reengineer healthy living back into our lives. ~ Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

I realized in order to be involved in health policy, you really had to understand more than the individual patient that we as physicians, are taught to think about. ~ Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey

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

What bothers her most is that she cares. Risa was always able to take care of herself, both physically and emotionally. At the state home, either you developed several layers of personal armor or you were eaten alive. When had that changed? Was it when she was forced to play music as kids were led into the building beneath her to be unwound? Was it when she made the choice to accept a shattered spine, rather than having it replaced by the healthy spine of an Unwind? Or maybe it was before that, when she realized that, against all sense and reason, she had fallen in love with Connor Lassiter? ~ Neal Shusterman

He (Connor) will only do the wrong thing when it's the right thing to do. - Risa ~ Neal Shusterman

I think the house call is one of the ways I get an insight into the ways in which people live and the importance of environment in keeping people healthy. ~ Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey

Big-Picture-speak, Risa calls it. Seeing the whole, and none of the parts. ~ Neal Shusterman