“I trained in internal medicine, and I expected most of my time would b...” — Vivek Murthy Quote

“I trained in internal medicine, and I expected most of my time would be spent on diabetes or heart disease or cancer. What I didn't expect was that so many people I saw would be struggling with loneliness.”

“We can experience an erosion of self-esteem when we're lonely, as we come to believe that it's because we're not likable or because something is broken inside of us. And that can just compound that loneliness further and further.”

“I have long believed that there are fundamentally two forces or emotions that drive our decisions - love and fear. Love has its many manifestations: compassion, gratitude, kindness, and joy. Fear often manifests in cynicism, anger, jealousy, and anxiety. I worry that many of our communities are being driven by fear.”

“My mother died of lung cancer last year. I felt helpless. As an economist, I thought, 'What can I do?'”

“Liberalism is a cancer; it's a forest fire; it destroys every single thing it touches.”

“The public needs to know - they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.”