Quotes About Medicine

Research must be central to healthcare if healthcare is to improve.

The value that the generic drug industry brings to the U.S. healthcare system is indisputable.

Healthcare is an area that has the greatest potential to benefit from technology.

The fact that healthier lifestyles and advances in medicine mean that we are living longer is actually something to be celebrated.

If you're healthier, you tend to have a lower demand for health services.

Big data is going to make us all healthier.

Making important medicine more available and affordable is a great thing for the country, and Netmeds is one the mainstays in the space. They have a long legacy in the pharma business, and they are making it easier for people to stay healthy.

Good access to a doctor and a drugstore when you first have a problem can avoid a lot of cost and heartache later.

I critique market-based medicine not because I haven't seen its heights but because I've seen its depths.

I liked medicine. I liked helping people. I liked the biology of it and understanding how the body works.

When I was younger, I was an avid science girl. I was all about, 'I'm going to be a doctor.' Even when I graduated, I was like, 'I'm going to be a doctor.' Even though I did acting and I was in plays and drama clubs in high school and college, I still didn't think I was going to take it on as a career.

We need to provide all areas of the country with access to high-quality medical care.

Too many OB/GYN's aren't able to practice their love with women all across the country.

Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB/GYN's aren't able to practice their love with women all across the country. (Poplar Bluff, Missouri, 6 September, 2004)

Morals and medicine warred within his breast, and medicine won the day- but I dare say morals may give him a sleepless night.

I have so much inertia and so little initiative that very possibly if you had not kept me from taking my degree I would have, well, not taken to the practice of medicine, but at any rate to pathological psychology and you don't know how little I like pathological psychology, and how all medicine bores me.

Regulation is necessary to protect our natural environment, keep our food and medicine safe, and ensure fair competition and fair treatment of our workers.

As a child, I had no interest in science whatsoever - then I started writing and recognized how relevant it was. My first book about science and medicine captured the world of organ transplantation in 1989 from the points of view of all of the participants - scientists, surgeons, social workers, organ recipients and even donor families.

As economists have often pointed out, we pay doctors for quantity, not quality. As they point out less often, we also pay them as individuals, rather than as members of a team working together for their patients. Both practices have made for serious problems.

Nearly every business collects metrics on inventory, sales, and workplace process. Health care has been slow to measure these kinds of outcomes. Increasingly, general medicine, via either managed care or large practice settings, is improving by collecting data through electronic records and refining practice based on what works.

It's critical that we lower the cost of prescription drugs and develop a health care plan that works for all Americans.

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.

If you're a doctor, what do you promise to do? First, do no harm. If your operating philosophy is do no harm, that's not a call to imagination. Not only that, if I'm a patient, I don't want your imagination. I want what works.

Conservatives believe that international institutions such as the United Nations are anti-American and anti-Israeli cabals. Progressives do not like the economic medicine that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank force down the throats of developing countries.