Few things a doctor does are more important than relieving pain. . . pain is soul destroying. No patient should have to endure intense pain unnecessarily. The quality of mercy is essential to the practice of medicine; here, of all… — Marcia Angell Copy Share Image
I think doctors are really suffering now. They're suffering in the sense that they feel torn between serving their patients in the best way they can and dealing with all of requirements of the insurance companies and the HMOs and… — Marcia Angell Copy Share Image
Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing. — Marcia Angell Copy Share Image
There's a certain libertarian right-wing view that there should be no FDA, that people can decide for themselves whether medicines are safe and effective.… — Marcia Angell Copy Share Image
For all of life's discontents, according to the pharmaceutical industry, there is a drug and you should take it. Then for the side effects… — Marcia Angell Copy Share Image
When death is imminent and dying patients find their suffering unbearable, then the physician's role should shift from healing to relieving suffering in accord… — Marcia Angell Copy Share Image
In economic terms, health care is a highly successful industry - profitable, growing, and virtually recession-proof - but it's a massive burden on the… — Marcia Angell Copy Share Image
Obamacare is simply incapable of doing what it is supposed to do - provide nearly universal care at an affordable and sustainable cost. — Marcia Angell Copy Share Image
Pharmaceutical companies have too much influence over the education of physicians in this country. They have too much control over the evaluation of their… — Marcia Angell Copy Share Image
The pharmaceutical industry isn't the only place where there's waste and inefficiency and profiteering. That happens in much of the rest of the health… — Marcia Angell Copy Share Image
The use of psychoactive drugs - including both antidepressants and antipsychotics - has exploded...[yet] 'the tally of those who are disabled...increased nearly two and… — Marcia Angell Copy Share Image
Drug companies say they need to charge ever-higher prices to cover their research costs, but they spend far less on research and development than… — Marcia Angell Copy Share Image
It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted… — Marcia Angell Copy Share Image
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