Quotes About Healthcare

Medicine is remarkably conservative to the point of being properly characterized as sclerotic, even ossified.

The key to the problem is an empowered, knowledgeable patient, but as we shall see, extra information need not lead to empowerment. Whether

Many smart folks seem to think that if you just get your metaphors and messages right, you'll win. That if you start describing what you favor as a 'moral value' - 'affordable health care is a moral value' etc., - then you'll appeal to red-state voters.

In our country, there is so much that's wrong with the way we deliver care to the aging, the very young, and the infirm. But you can't beat something with nothing. It is not enough to decry what's broken. You have to describe the alternative and make it possible for people to believe in it. To care.

I am leaving because I have to fight simultaneously a potential recurrence of cancer the Democratic leadership, a health care bill that's going to destroy this country, my opposition to it and a belief that my party has become what it became - what it campaigned against.

And this administration and this House leadership have said, quote-unquote, they will stop at nothing to pass this health care bill. And now they've gotten rid of me and it will pass. You connect the dots.

Here in Silicon Valley, I have taken part in hundreds of conversations trying to convince people to dive in and become entrepreneurs. All too often, innovators with good, safe, jobs are unwilling to put their family's access to health care at risk by walking away from company-backed medical insurance.

David Cutler wrote in MIT Technology Review, "the single most unused person in health care" is the patient.

took ten years and $5 billion to sequence the first human genome, and now it takes less than twenty-four hours and costs less than $1,500.5

consumers find it easier to discuss costs with their pharmacist than to have to deal with their doctors.

there are over six thousand prescription drugs, but we only have pharmacogenomic information for just over one hundred

Indeed, the data might even preempt the need for a "visit," and when they do prove necessary, they will no longer be visits or appointments but informative, data-driven discussions. There

This study demonstrates that patients who view their lab test results online overwhelmingly react with positive rather than negative emotions."12

It may just mean that the best way to cut the ever-increasing costs of health care around the world will be to provide cheap smartphones with Internet service to those who otherwise could not afford to buy them.

Imaging via a pocket ultrasound device decidedly transcends the antique stethoscope from 1816, regarded as the icon of medicine.

Presently, there are just over one hundred medications that the Food and Drug Administration labels as having an important, known DNA interaction.42

medical harm as one of the top three killers in the United States.

440,000 lethal, preventable events each year from care in hospitals, or "roughly one-sixth of all deaths that occur in the United States each year.

The two primary factors in these deaths are nosocomial (hospital-acquired) infections11 and medical errors.

In 2011, there were over eighty-five million computerized tomography (CT) scans and nineteen million nuclear imaging tests performed in the United States.42 How many of these millions of patients do you think had their radiation dose measured or discussed with them before the scan was performed? The

Interestingly, the propensity for sharing was more likely outside the United States (especially high in India and Indonesia), was highest among those with higher income, and was increased when associated with potential for research to help others or reduction in their health care costs. Overall,

Furthermore, Choosing Wisely doesn't emphasize the cumulative risk of these scans that involve ionized radiation.78–81 For example, a typical cardiology practice has its patients who

Wouldn't it be amazing to have anonymous medical records available to all research doctors? Making our medical records open for sharing will save 100,000 lives a year.

Intel Healthcare survey of 12,002 people from eight countries showed that more than 76 percent were willing to share health data anonymously.18