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We must always remember that all medical interventions have risk, and very little can be asserted with 100 percent certainty.

Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.

The world can now maintain an acute infection in a way that is unprecedented in the history of life on our planet.

I have spent too long with too many people who have lost loved ones to healthcare-associated infections not to be determined to act on this. There is no tolerable level of preventable infections. The only acceptable strategy is a zero-tolerance strategy.

I am very puzzled by the fact that young people are getting infected again. They don't take precautions despite an enormous amount of information. It's like riding a race car at 200 kilometers an hour. Some people like the risk.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

There's a cultural expectation that everyone will be immunized, in part to protect the entire population. When people refuse that expectation, they're indulging in a certain kind of political or social immunity.

It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.

Beware the wrath of a patient adversary.

But like Mrs. Ford, I think that the more people realize what a difficult and what an insidious disease it is, the sooner people will start to correct that situation.