Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
We will empower patients as well as health professionals. We will disempower the hierarchy and bureaucracy.
Doctors and patients need as much data as possible to make an informed decision about what treatment is best.
I want to relax for a while, maybe go back to my medical practice. I got a lot of old patients waiting for me.
If we are going to keep patients safe, then we have to make sure that doctors are able to learn from mistakes.
I do not practice clinical medicine and hence do not treat individual patients. My career is in medical science.
Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed.
We have thousands of patients and family members who are dealing with dual devastation, cancer and the hurricane.
There seems little reason to prescribe anti-depressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients.
Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients.
Patients are empowered by having better access to their own health information, and then by owning their own data.
The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
The good thing is that people have slowly started helping each other and not shunning Corona patients to a corner.
We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.
As a doctor who took care of patients for 25 years, I saw the problems with America's health care system every day.
Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.
Many ALS patients end up fading away quietly and dying. For me, this was not OK. I did not want to fade away quietly.
My choice of learning pharmacy was driven by my interests, curiosity, and a desire to seek new medicines for patients.
We're all crazy and the only difference between patients and their therapists is the therapists haven't been caught yet.
If we include hedonistic philosophy in hospitals, the lives of patients suffering from cancer would be much, much better.
By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
Compassionate doctors sometimes lie to patients about the severity of their condition, and it is not always wrong to do so.
Depression can seem worse than terminal cancer, because most cancer patients feel loved and they have hope and self-esteem.
Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.
I've always approached my job first as a physician. I'm here to help and take care of patients. I'm an administrator second.
I was drawn to medicine because I'm fond of serving. In college, we go to the orphanage every week, see patients first-hand.
HealthWell is just one of several foundations that assist patients in making their insurance co-payments for expensive drugs.
Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.
Patients who trust their doctors and have a psychological expectation of getting better could trigger a reaction in their body.
Patients deserve increased price transparency and affordable care, particularly as the system shifts significant costs to them.
'The Who' created the Daltrey/Townshend Center at UCLA for teenage hospital patients with cancer. It's the only one of its kind.
I've realised that doctors can only help change a certain number of patients, but a Minister of Health can really change things.
Medicare is immune from the competitive pressures that force private insurers to pay attention to what patients and doctors want.
So it's been a slow process and it's taken some patience. That's why patients are called patients I think - patience is required.
Our interaction as patients with the NHS should be on the basis that there's a presumption that all information is shared with us.
The treatment of patients with contaminated blood has been described as one of the most tragic episodes in the history of the NHS.
Great writers arrive among us like new diseases threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible.
Robots may cut down on infection and mean a consultant can see more patients, but wouldn't you rather meet the doctor than a machine?
He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.
Ever since I got to know how easily skin donation can save the lives of serious burns patients, I have felt strongly about the issue.
The best therapists can do with sadness, anger, and anxiety is to help patients live in the more comfortable part of their set range.
I weighed 193 pounds and had three chins. I couldn't get up before 9 a.m. and never saw patients before 10. I decided to go on a diet.
My job as a physician is to make sure I have provided my patients with the best options to make the decisions that affect their lives.
Shinya Yamanaka's work has involved mice and human cells, and advances the prospect of providing new cells or body parts for patients.
If patients are rationing insulin, they are putting themselves in mortal peril to save money. They shouldn't have to make that choice.
Serving people is never a problem for me, because I've already served all my patients. Even as a doctor, I also wasn't purely a doctor.
A lot of medical problems are solved if doctors are nice to patients. If you can make them think positive, you may not need medication.
The more we know about Lyme, the more we can do to treat patients and educate families to stop the spread of this debilitating disease.
I understand what it's like to go to hospitals and there's no medicine, and the best thing you have to give the patients is compassion.
Some hospitals screen all ICU patients and isolate those with MRSA, a process that can be challenging for both caregivers and patients.
Punishment for putting patients at risk ought to reflect the gravity of manufacturing, distributing or selling counterfeit medications.