Elizabeth Holmes Quotations

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.

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.

Too often you see someone fall, break a rib, go in to the doctor and discover a tumor.

My father did a lot of disaster relief work, and he was always in places where there was a lot of pain.

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.

I definitely am afraid of needles. It's the only thing that actually scares me.

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.'

With some diseases, like type 2 diabetes, if people get alerted early, they can take steps to avert getting sick.

Patients are empowered by having better access to their own health information, and then by owning their own data.

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