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“Global warming has opened the southern door of the United States not just to leish but to many other diseases. The big ones now…

— Douglas Preston

Abstraction is an exercise in a pre-assured failure. It is a futile attempt to communicate the non-communicable

— Derek R. Audette

In the first speech I delivered as health secretary, I made one thing perfectly clear: we need a cultural shift in the NHS: from…

— Andrew Lansley

“The modern patient safety movement replaces “the blame and shame game” with an approach known as systems thinking. This paradigm acknowledges the human condition—namely,…

— Robert Wachter

Medicine today invests heavily in information technology, yet the promised improvement in patient safety and productivity frankly have not been realized,

— Peter Pronovost

“Clinical handovers are high-risk situations for patient safety. Errors lead to delays in diagnosis and treatment, unnecessary tests and treatments, incorrect patient treatment, increases…

— Carmel Sheridan

“Although the handover report is crucial to ensuring patient safety and continuity of care, it is surprising that most training programs neglect to focus…

— Carmel Sheridan

Healthcare providers will compete to offer the best record of patient safety at the lowest prices. Hospitals and patients will benefit from having accurate…

— Timothy Murphy

Poverty made me feel weak, as if I were coming down with an awful, debilitating, communicable disease - the disease of being without money.…

— Faith Sullivan

“You go back to the 1890s—we go back 110 years because it is so easy to stress the system to the breaking point where…

— Linda Marsa

Resentment is a communicable disease and should be quarantined.

— Cynthia Ozick

Such lifestyle factors such as cigarette smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, little physical activity and low dietary calcium intake are risk factors for osteoporosis as…

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

— Thomas Browne

There is a chance that we could have at least as many dying from communicable diseases as we've had dying from the tsunami.

— David Nabarro

“consumption of grains is probably responsible for most, if not all, of the noncommunicable diseases we face as a civilization today, we”

— Sarah Ballantyne