Political Quotes

“Madam President, I just met in a room near the Senate floor with doctors and others from three of America's great children's hospitals: Rainbow Children's Hospital in Cleveland, Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, and Cincinnati Children's Hospital. I think Ohio leads the Nation in the number of children's hospitals and, frankly, I think the quality of children's hospitals. There are so much we need to do--I know the Presiding Officer from North Carolina sits on the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee and has had an interest in this--where we don't quite focus enough attention on children's health. In the past, when we did research in this country--and we are only now beginning to change this--we used to think about children as just small adults, and if you needed X milligrams in a prescription for a 150-pound adult, for a 30- pound child you gave them one-fifth as much. We now realize that is not the way we should do research or practice medicine. So we have seen a lot of progress, and much of that comes from the activism, if you will, of doctors and nurses and administrators at Nationwide Children's in Columbus, Cincinnati Children's, and Rainbow Children's in Cleveland, affiliated with the University Hospital. We have been able, through a longtime program--about a dozen years old now--to do something called children's gradual medical education in training pediatricians.…”