Quotes About Patients

I was a heart surgeon before I came to Congress, and I've worked many holidays on behalf of my patients.

Meaningful health reform needs to provide incentives for physicians and other health professionals to teach their patients healthy ways of living rather than reimbursing primarily drugs and surgical interventions.

Allowed to cast themselves for great tragic roles, they were experiencing the exhilaration felt by great tragic actors. It was not lack of control, lack of taste, lack of knowledge that accounted for permission of what was not permitted in the West. Rather was it the reverse. Our people could not have handled patients full of the dangerous thoughts of death and love; these people had such resources that they did not need to empty their patients of such freight.

The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.

Art, for example, becomes "art therapy." When patients make music, it becomes "music therapy." When the arts are used for "therapy" in this way, they are degraded to a secondary position.

I had patients who didn't die because they had too many pets to try to find homes for. It's why women live longer than men with the same health problems.

If we include hedonistic philosophy in hospitals, the lives of patients suffering from cancer would be much, much better.

As a physician, I try to heal the mind before healing the body. That's why most of my patients get better even before they start any medication.

We can't socialize the doctors without socializing the patients.

Some patients I see are actually draining into their bodies the diseased thoughts of their minds.

Doctors coin money when they do procedures but family medicine doesn't have any procedures.

I have seen doctors, in good faith, leave patients on steroids for years, thinking they are doing right. A friend of mine was on steroids for so long, she has severe osteoporosis.

Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.

The World Health Organisation has a lot of its medical experts sitting in Geneva while hospitals in Africa have no drugs and desperate patients are forced to seek medication on the black market.

As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.

In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year.

An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia.

The forces that have worked hard to stoke populist anger against reform are the very ones that benefit from a health system which puts profits ahead of quality care for its patients.

I grew up with a lot of dinner table conversations about health care and ways in which the system was inadequate for the needs of many of the patients they took care of.

I want to go after the pharmaceutical companies like Valeant, and Turns that are increasing prices without any regard to the impact on people's health.

For-profit does not belong in a taxpayer-funded health system. For-profit means cutting medical services to patients, and payments to providers, to preserve profits.

If the history of medicine is told through the stories of doctors, it is because their contributions stand in place of the more substantive heroism of their patients.

I'm now 'Doctor' to the patients and I have to cover my ignorance by waving my arms and looking grave.

Strokes are preventable and treatable. Prompt treatment of patients experiencing stroke saves lives and reduces disability.