Quotes About Healthcare

Because ALS is underfunded, patients have had no option but to fade away and die. That is not OK.

There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.

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?

L.A. - talk about a cruel city: Patients are forcibly removed from hospitals.

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.

Dialysis does not make patients well. It simply postpones their deaths.

As a doctor who took care of patients for 25 years, I saw the problems with America's health care system every day.

Some hospitals screen all ICU patients and isolate those with MRSA, a process that can be challenging for both caregivers and patients.

We can bring health care back to the states and bring power back to patients. I think of that commercial from 1984 when Apple took a hammer and broke the screen.

I don't believe the government should determine what a woman does in this area any more than it should tell a chief executive how to run a company. Personal and family matters, relationships between doctors and patients should not be within the purview of government.

If we are going to keep patients safe, then we have to make sure that doctors are able to learn from mistakes.

I want to help AIDS patients.

The hospital has adjusted itself in response to Covid-19, the influx of patients. So walking into the hospital, you immediately realize that you're playing a different ballgame.

We've seen the benefits of expanded telehealth services during the COVID-19 pandemic and the importance of making sure access to care is available if patients have to stay at home. That value won't go away when the pandemic ends.

American patients deserve more access to quality, affordable health care.

In a majority of hospitals, in a majority of places, it is the nurses that are on the frontlines. They're the ones working every moment with the patients to ensure that they do well.

Whether we're too embarrassed or shy - or worried that a discussion about cost might affect the quality of our care - it's clear that both doctors and patients need to do more communicating.

As a nurse, I've seen firsthand the harmful effects of patients not being able to afford their lifesaving medications.

Paul Ryan wants to get health care repaired and certainly Dan Donovan wants to.

If you're self-employed, between jobs, or can't get insurance through work, you'll have access to affordable health insurance as good as Congressman Paul Ryan's.

When you pay a hospital bill, you're really paying two hospital bills - one bill for you because you have a job and/or insurance and can pay the hospital. and another bill, which is tacked onto your bill, to cover the medical expenses of someone who doesn't have a job and/or insurance and can't pay the hospital.

Being in the hospice didn't work out exactly the way I had expected. By all rights, I should have finished my time here in mid-March 2006 - at least, that's when Medicare stopped paying.

When someone has to go to the hospital because they don't have insurance - and by the way, I think the insurance companies should be out of the mix altogether - but when someone needs health care, and they don't have the ability to pay for it, in our communities, we end up paying for it one way or the other.

As a doctor, I saw firsthand the problems many patients face finding a doctor, navigating the system, and paying their health care bills.