Quotes About Healthcare

Well, truth is often hard to hear, but truth is freeing. And regarding cancer, the truth is this: money—rather than what's best for the patient—rules. And that's the truth.

Two of the five women had a recurrence of cancer. That's a pretty high percentage. And who was to say cancer wouldn't return in one or more of the other three? It started to become clear to us that the medical industry had created a cancer conveyor belt.

The FDA constantly approves drugs—not necessarily because they're helpful to the patient but because they bring in money and profits to the huge pharmaceutical industry. True, some of the drugs extend the life of cancer patients—but none of them cure cancer.

The medical industry doesn't want to cure cancer. The industry would lose too much money, too many jobs, and too much power.

The public is conditioned to believe new and better drugs are the answer to our medical problems, but that is seldom the case.

Sure, we need hospitals for broken bones, accidents, things like that. But for treating disease or chronic illness—hospitals are a death trap.

The study went on to state that by prescribing toxic drugs, performing unnecessary surgeries, or simply making a mistake, doctors are causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands of patients every year.

Others follow medical instructions to the letter, yet never ask questions of their doctors nor provide any feedback to them. The latter group may get a handle on their blood sugar levels, but are so miserable it hardly matters.

Como una calavera estancada en la zona sur de Santiago, la obra gruesa del Hospital del Trabajador ahí quedó sin terminar, sin ver realizado el macroproyecto de salud que Salvador Allende soñó para este sector de la capital.

After consulting with the hospital they administered the opioid antidote drug, Narcan.

The core competency of this business is really around engineering quality and manufacturing-related services. It's selling to the companies selling to the healthcare market, kind of as a B2B play.

Asked about their gravest cases, med students say, A patient who had been doing well in treatment lost his job, could not afford his medicine, resumed drinking, missed his clinic appointments, and after four months was brought to the emergency room by the police. Paralyzing melancholy has become an element in a tale of treatment interrupted.

Institutions mistake good intentions for objectives. They say health care; that's an intention, not an objective.

In any decent civilization, healthcare is a right, not a privilege.

National and regional governments were committing vast resources into combating the biosphere breakdown. Social welfare, infrastructure administration, health care, and security — the fields government used to devote its efforts to — were all slowly being starved of tax money and sold off to private industry. It

killed fifteen men when I was in combat. Yeah, he was a nurse. Couldn't read the label on the medicine bottle.