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" Today, blood work and science are able to provide more of a movie of your health, identifying trends before they become an issue. "
Elizabeth Holmes
Health
Work
Science
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" Anywhere from 40% to 60% of people, when they're given a requisition by a doctor to go get tested, don't, because they're scared of needles or the locations are inconvenient or the cost is too high. And if you're not even getting tested, how is it possible that we're going to move toward an era of preventive medicine? "
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" Too often you see someone fall, break a rib, go in to the doctor and discover a tumor. "
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" 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. "
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" My father did a lot of disaster relief work, and he was always in places where there was a lot of pain. "
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" 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.' "
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" What I really want out of life is to discover something new: something mankind didn't know was possible to do. "
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" With some diseases, like type 2 diabetes, if people get alerted early, they can take steps to avert getting sick. "
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" I definitely am afraid of needles. It's the only thing that actually scares me. "
Elizabeth Holmes
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" Thernos 1.0 is an external point-of-care BlackBerry. "
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" I love adventures. "
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" At a relatively early age, I began to believe that building a business was perhaps the greatest opportunity for making an impact, because it's a tool for making a change in the world. "
Elizabeth Holmes
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Business
" 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. "
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Down
Believe
Together
" 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. "
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People
Me
You
" The right to protect the health and well-being of every person, of those we love, is a basic human right. "
Elizabeth Holmes
Well-Being
Health
Right
" We know more about our credit cards than we know about our bodies. "
Elizabeth Holmes
More
Our
Than
" No one thinks of the lab-testing experience as positive. It should be! One way to create that is to help people engage with the data once their physicians release it. You can't do that if you don't really understand why you're getting certain tests done and when you don't know what the results mean when you get them back. "
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Know
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" Patients are empowered by having better access to their own health information, and then by owning their own data. "
Elizabeth Holmes
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