Quotes About Healthcare

Doctors can be replaced by software – 80% of them can. I'd much rather have a good machine learning system diagnose my disease than the median or average doctor.

If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them.

When we're done with employer-based health insurance, it will have as much life in it as Jimmy Hoffa.

see if your patient can sit up or stand than to listen to the heart sounds. Other high-yield examination elements might include postural blood pressure, inspection of ear canal for cerumen, visual acuity, and foot examination.

I've been to enough other countries in the world to know what happens when you have socialized single-payer health care. It works. People don't get sick as much. They don't lose their life savings with a catastrophic illness like cancer or AIDS.

You know what it was like? It was like thinking I was heading to a surprise party and instead it was a surprise pap smear.

one of the first to provide poor invalids with a level of care that had previously been available only to the rich. In

Among industrialized countries, the U.S. ranks 29th in infant survival.

mothers are not informed enough to know that this is not a good idea, and that any woman who has the right information would not want to have her baby induced.

Helen Sandland, an obstetrician in Wilmington, North Carolina, resigned in June 2005 after hospital administrators told her to increase her cesarean rate, which was a modest 10%.

What they don't understand is that obstetricians are surgeons, and they know pathology, but they really suck at wellness." They are trained to sew up a tear, but not to prevent one.

In the countries with the best maternal and infant outcomes—the Netherlands, Sweden, and Denmark—women and babies benefit from lifelong universal healthcare, but that care is markedly different: obstetricians attend only high-risk pregnancies. The vast majority of laboring women get individual support from a midwife, are free to move about and birth in whatever position feels best, and are rarely induced, anesthetized, or cut.

The following year, she quit. Several things were bothering her. Safety protocols seemed to have no bearing on actual practice; she saw too many women induced or wheeled to the operating room, she felt, because the floor needed a bed free or because the physician had to be somewhere...

Dac? pronunÈ›i cuvântul MOARTE într-un spital, nimeni nu aude. E sigur c? se las? t?cerea È™i-apoi se schimb? subiectul.

J'ai l'impression, Mamie-Rose, qu'on a inventé un autre hôpital que celui qui existe vraiment. On fait comme si on ne venait à l'hôpital que pour guérir. Alors qu'on y vient aussi pour mourir. - Tu as raison, Oscar. Et je crois qu'on fait la même erreur pour la vie. Nous oublions que la vie est fragile, friable, éphémère. Nous faisons tous semblant d'être immortels.

Der Anpassungstheorie liegen folgende Annahmen zugrunde: 1. Jede Gesellschaft als soche ist normal; 2. seelisch krann ist, wer von dem von der Gesellschaft favorisierten Persönlichkeitstyp abweicht; 3. das Gesundheitswesen im Bereich von Psychiatrie udn Psychotherapie verfolgt das Ziel, den einzelnen auf das Niveau des Durchschnittschmenschen zu bringen, unabhängig davon, ob dieser blind ist oder nicht blind.

When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.

What is needed is not a rejection of the positive role of the market mechanism in generating income and wealth, but the important recognition that the market mechanism has to work in a world of many institutions. We need the power and protection of these institutions, provided by democratic practice, civil and human rights, a free and open media, facilities for basic education and health care, economic safety nets, and of course, provisions for women's freedom and rights

Almost two-thirds of these six million people are women. Almost two-thirds of the caregivers for those Alzheimer's patients are also women.

I believe we can incentivize more affordable health care in general by better regulating insurance and creating meaningful competition for health care services.

I don't think it should be a surprise when we're talking about energy and trying to have more home-grown energy, be less reliant on foreign oil when you look at our health care that we're trying to get more affordable health care, that these are going to create major debates in this country and be somewhat polarizing.

we consider cats to be middle aged at seven to eleven years old, and geriatric thereafter.

Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it.

When a woman earns a dollar, the payback is higher. She'll invest in her children, in their education, health care, and basic needs. The impact of a woman's role in the economy benefits society at large.