Quotes About Care

I wanted to show people that doctors are humans, too. It's important for us to be around other people - that way, we can understand our patients better rather than just walking into a room, barking orders, and walking out.

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.

Covid-19-affected patients cannot be orphaned.

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.

People need to pay attention to their bodies and go get a checkup. If you do that, you have a chance to help illnesses from getting even worse.

I always have to pay attention to exercise and nutrition.

People generally pay attention to what they already know about and what they care about.

I think the story is important in every business. Why do you exist, why are you here, why is your product different, why should I pay attention, why should I care?

When someone is there for you, has your back, that's somebody to pay attention to because that's a friend.

The least anyone can do is pay attention to their parents and people who are elder to them.

You don't forget you have Parkinson's disease, believe me, especially in the shower. If you are not paying attention, you fall down.

The saddest thing is when a guy is paying so much attention to the world and everything going by that he can't take the time for his own mother.

While the federal government is committed to paying 100% of the cost of new people in Medicaid, I cannot, in good conscience, deny the uninsured access to care.

I defy anybody to be of service to another human being and not have the most peaceful night of sleep you've had in a long, long time.

Our babies are like penguins; penguin babies can't exist unless more than one person is taking care of them. They just can't keep going.

Funding care in the same way we fund pensions is the right approach for the Government to take, and the fairest way to guarantee dignity for all in old age.

A large percentage of my father's patients were African-American.

There is a perception in our communities that we have low educational outcomes in low-income communities because kids aren't motivated or families don't care. We've discovered that is not the case.

I care about public perception, yes. I don't care about my enemies' perception.

There are so many kids in this world, and in this country, that need homes. And so we're perfectly content to look into adoption one day, if for some reason we aren't able to have a biological child.

Value in medicine depends on information - as I said in 'Let Patients Help,' 'People perform better when they're informed better.' It follows that to make patients and families more effective in care, they need to know more.

Most performers spend half their earnings taking care of family members.