Quotes About Healthcare

You don't necessarily want your physician to have all your information.

As an emergency physician, I can tell you that the best health insurance in the world means nothing if patients can't reach a hospital in their moment of need.

A few colleagues and I began Doctors for America with a simple belief that physicians should play a leadership role in designing and running our nation's health care system.

I don't understand, given the constraints physicians have in doing their job and the paperwork demanded of them, why people want to be physicians. I think we've made it very, very difficult for them to perform their job. I think that's a shame.

America is facing a looming shortage of doctors, nurses, and physicians' assistants.

My parents both are physicians, and my grandfathers were both physicians.

Did you know that there was a study in 1961 that found that 90 percent of physicians wouldn't tell you if you were diagnosed with cancer?

When I was in the Mississippi Legislature, we worked to establish the Mississippi Rural Physicians Scholarship Program to help address the shortage of physicians in the rural areas of the state.

Physicians should be genotyped.

There are now over 5,000 medical physicists in the U.S more than 50 times the number in 1958.

Medical physics is an applied area of physics.

We approach people the same way we approach our cars. We take the poor kid to a doctor and ask, What's wrong with him, how much will it cost, and when can I pick him up?

Over the years, CBO has been all over the board on healthcare. The only consistent point is they've missed the mark on different pieces. That's the nature of a scorekeeper.

Think for a moment about what Obamacare has done: The federal government has come up with its own (ever-evolving) definition of 'health insurance,' which now includes free access to sterilization, contraception, and certain abortifacients such as the morning-after pill.

I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.

Sometimes when you get sick and you go to the doctor, it can feel like you didn't get your money's worth if you don't come away with a pill. I've had many, many conversations with patients who I've cared for over the years about why it's actually in some cases better not to go home with antibiotics.

Universal health care is, for me, the most sacred part, the most important pillar, of British citizenship.

When you report on Wall Street and health-care reform... what could be more relevant to people's lives?

Folks may not be familiar with Pharmacy Benefit Managers, or PBMs, but they live with the effects of PBMs almost every time they go to fill a prescription and have to dig deep in their wallet to pay for it.

I hate hospitals. Even if it's a joyful occasion when a friend gave birth. It's like, 'Oh, look at the beautiful baby.... and all the disease on the walls...'

I joined Planned Parenthood because I wanted to help poor women with real health care needs.

No pill can help me deal with the problem of not wanting to take pills; likewise, no amount of psychotherapy alone can prevent my manias and depressions. I need both.

We are already seeing older people wanting greater choice in how, when and where they receive care.

I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood.