Vague promises of savings from cutting waste, enhancing prevention and wellness, installing electronic medical records and improving quality are merely lipstick cost control, more for show and public relations than for true change. Savings will require changing how doctors think… — Ezekiel Emanuel Copy Share Image
Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously, as an imperative to do everything for the patient regardless of the cost or effects on others — Ezekiel Emanuel Copy Share Image
Where I came from, just nodding and smiling when someone expressed views was the ultimate insult. If people weren't yelling about politics in our… — Ezekiel Emanuel Copy Share Image
You have the quality of your work and the integrity with which you do it, — Ezekiel Emanuel Copy Share Image
I'm the son of a pediatrician, and I do believe that the most important resource we have is our kids. And I think the… — Ezekiel Emanuel Copy Share Image
The situation around Terri Schiavo was a deeply held conflict over what to do if someone isn't going to return to consciousness or competence.… — Ezekiel Emanuel Copy Share Image
Reasoning based on cost has been strenuously resisted; it violated the Hippocratic Oath, was associated with rationing, and derided as putting a price on… — Ezekiel Emanuel Copy Share Image
Having been an oncologist and having cared for scores, if not hundreds, of dying patients, when you don't have a treatment that can shrink… — Ezekiel Emanuel Copy Share Image
Our dad hugged us and kissed us so much that some friends and relatives complained that he was going to turn us into sissies… — Ezekiel Emanuel Copy Share Image
My mother saw nothing inconsistent in her traditional desire to look after her husband and children and her radical politics. She began her civil… — Ezekiel Emanuel Copy Share Image
The death of a 20-year-old woman is intuitively worse than that of a 2-month-old girl, even though the baby has had less life. The… — Ezekiel Emanuel Copy Share Image
My father always has been attractive because of his energy, warmth, charm, and talent for finding some connection with people from all cultures and… — Ezekiel Emanuel Copy Share Image
“Today 60% of workers in the private sector receive their insurance through their employer. I believe that by 2025 fewer than 20% of workers… — Ezekiel Emanuel Copy Share Image
Over his illustrious career, John Harris has explored the most challenging bioethical questions with insight, engaging wit, and eloquence. In Enhancing Evolution, Harris does… — Ezekiel Emanuel Copy Share Image
As an academic, what do you have? You have the quality of your work and the integrity with which you do it. — Ezekiel Emanuel Copy Share Image
Patients who are being kept alive by technology and want to end their lives already have a recognized constitutional right to stop any and… — Ezekiel Emanuel Copy Share Image
Vague promises of savings from cutting waste, enhancing prevention and wellness, installing electronic medical records and improving quality are merely lipstick cost control, more… — Ezekiel Emanuel Copy Share Image
