Zitat des Tages von Elizabeth Holmes:
With some diseases, like type 2 diabetes, if people get alerted early, they can take steps to avert getting sick.
I think a lot of young people have incredible ideas and incredible insights, but sometimes they wait before they go give their life to something. What I did was just to start a little earlier.
I really believe that if we were from another planet, and we sat down to put our heads together on torture experiments, the concept of sticking a needle into someone and sucking their blood out would probably qualify as a pretty good one.
Today, blood work and science are able to provide more of a movie of your health, identifying trends before they become an issue.
Too often you see someone fall, break a rib, go in to the doctor and discover a tumor.
I definitely am afraid of needles. It's the only thing that actually scares me.
We know more about our credit cards than we know about our bodies.
It drives me crazy when people talk about the scale as an indicator of health, because your weight doesn't tell you what's going on at a biochemical level.
What I really want out of life is to discover something new: something mankind didn't know was possible to do.
When I thought about having the greatest impact with my life, I thought about all the times people lose loved ones because diseases weren't detected early enough. I thought, 'I can play a role there.'
The art of phlebotomy originated with bloodletting in 1400 B.C., and the modern clinical lab emerged in the 1960s - and it has not fundamentally evolved since then. You go in, sit down, they put a tourniquet on your arm, stick you with a needle, take these tubes and tubes of blood.
Fundamentally, the answers to our challenges in healthcare relies in engaging and empowering the individual.
My father did a lot of disaster relief work, and he was always in places where there was a lot of pain.