Patients' lives are more important than embryos. I do want to avoid the use of embryos if possible. — Shinya Yamanaka Copy Share Image
Many of us are alarmed at the skyrocketing cost of medical care, including patients, who are the consumers. However, medical malpractice is… — Joe Baca Copy Share Image
I got interested in the emotions after studying patients who had lost the ability to emote and feel under certain circumstances. Many… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
When the Veterans Affairs Department implemented a program to provide home-based health care to veterans with multiple chronic conditions - many of… — Ron Wyden Copy Share Image
In the first speech I delivered as health secretary, I made one thing perfectly clear: we need a cultural shift in the… — Andrew Lansley Copy Share Image
There are several patients - there are thousands of patients, tens of thousands of patients, that carry either a stimulator in the… — Miguel Nicolelis Copy Share Image
My job as a physician is to make sure I have provided my patients with the best options to make the decisions… — Ami Bera Copy Share Image
These core principles - helping patients, preventing medical errors, promoting best practices and improving quality - are the reasons that health IT… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Using medicine in the service of cosmesis is generally bad for patients, bad for doctors, and bad for democracy. The only exceptions… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
Safe care saves lives and saves money. Adverse events like high levels of infection, blood clots or falls in hospital, emergency readmissions… — Andrew Lansley Copy Share Image
We have thousands of patients and family members who are dealing with dual devastation, cancer and the hurricane. — Greg Anderson Copy Share Image
A doctor can only treat patients. A doctor can only help the people who are shot or who are injured. But a… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
“In order to master compassion, you have to spend time getting to know monsters. When you can do that you will see… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Lets take away the incentives to do 'to' patients and instead create incentives to do 'for' patients, to be 'with' patients. We… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Many different relationships among patients, doctors, and drugs are possible and desirable. As in so many other areas of life, the Internet… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
He told me he was working as an interpreter in a doctor's office in Brookline, Massachusetts, where I was living at the… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“I’m now ‘Doctor’ to the patients and I have to cover my ignorance by waving my arms and looking grave.” — Howard Florey Copy Share Image
Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients. — Irving Kirsch Copy Share Image
Life is a terminal condition. Were all going to die. Cancer patients just have more information, but we all, in some ways,… — Kris Carr Copy Share Image
A democratic medical establishment does not alter people's bodies to fit regressive social norms; it advocates for patients by demanding the social… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
Residents of my district continue to stress to me that they want health care decisions to be made by patients and doctors,… — Tim Walberg Copy Share Image
What saddens me is seeing patients who have been going to therapy for years and years with no change, but they keep… — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
Patients who trust their doctors and have a psychological expectation of getting better could trigger a reaction in their body. — Irving Kirsch Copy Share Image
“I don’t understand hospital chaplains that try to rob my patients of their anger. Sometimes anger is a key motivator that gets… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I love the opportunity to help my patients, to work with them to find the best course of action to get them… — Ami Bera Copy Share Image
