The Patients' Bill of Rights is necessary to guarantee that health care will be available for those who are paying for insurance.… — Debbie Stabenow Copy Share Image
As a nurse, I've seen firsthand the harmful effects of patients not being able to afford their lifesaving medications. — Cori Bush 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… — Marcia Angell Copy Share Image
Many patients imagine that they have tried everything. True, they have used many remedies, but they have never had the cause of… — Daniel D. Palmer Copy Share Image
When I look at the patients that I've cared for with mental illness, I know that many of them took years to… — Vivek Murthy 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
The best therapists can do with sadness, anger, and anxiety is to help patients live in the more comfortable part of their… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
I weighed 193 pounds and had three chins. I couldn't get up before 9 a.m. and never saw patients before 10. I… — Robert Atkins Copy Share Image
I tell residents, if you gave me two patients with identical problems, and one of them had family at the bedside with… — Allan Hamilton Copy Share Image
If you sequence a cancerous tumor, you should be able to tailor the therapy according to the root cause of the cancer.… — Eric Topol Copy Share Image
The idea of infection began to be taken far more seriously than it ever had before. Hospitals transformed themselves in response to… — Peter Lewis Allen Copy Share Image
You'd believe that a patient with hypertension, if you know you have hypertension or diabetes, you would take your drug every day.… — Patrick Soon-Shiong Copy Share Image
I have always made a distinction between healing and curing. To me, 'healed' represents a condition of one's life; 'cured' relates strictly… — Bernie Siegel 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
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
Medicines are unusual commodities. Important drugs can save the lives and protect the health of millions. Their consumption can bring huge benefits,… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
I use music in the operating room to help create a healing environment for patients and staff. There is a reason that… — Bernie Siegel 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
“It’s easier to hang out with the patients in the indoor garden, with its sunlight and picnic tables. Easier to forget that… — Corrine Jackson 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
HIV/AIDs patients depend on highly trained, specialized physicians. Each and every patient has a unique combination of retrovirals they depend on to… — David Mixner Copy Share Image
But what physician has not had patients who don't make any sense at all? To tell the truth, they're our stock-in-trade. We… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Sometimes, patients with serious mental illness, just as with other serious medical illnesses, require hospitalization. In the absence of available public or… — Thomas R. Insel Copy Share Image
I am here on behalf of all the patients that I have ever met, all the ones I haven't met. This is… — Dave deBronkart 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
It's the first time an exoskeleton has been controlled by brain activity and offered feedback to the patients. Doing a demonstration in… — Miguel Nicolelis Copy Share Image
The forces that have worked hard to stoke populist anger against reform are the very ones that benefit from a health system… — Jerrold Nadler Copy Share Image
Please, let patients help improve healthcare. Let patients help steer our decisions, strategic and practical. Let patients help define what value in… — Dave deBronkart Copy Share Image
My dad was a physician. As a kid, I remember driving around with him on weekends so he could do his rounds… — Pierre Omidyar 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
When patients are admitted to hospital for elective surgery or non-urgent conditions, their vital signs are only monitored every four hours, unless… — Chris Toumazou 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
We know, in Wales or in England - you simply can't trust Labour on the NHS. In England, we are delivering for… — Andrew Lansley Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, that physician needs to be in the mix telling patients what their habits ought to be… — Miles D. White Copy Share Image
If we include hedonistic philosophy in hospitals, the lives of patients suffering from cancer would be much, much better. — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
Whenever you see shrinks on television, they're so clearly written by patients. They're either idealized or they're demonized or they love their… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
IPS cells can become a powerful tool to develop new drugs to cure intractable diseases because they can be made from patients'… — Shinya Yamanaka Copy Share Image
In my book, 'Let Patients Help,' one chapter is titled 'Let patients vote on what's worth the cost.' That's sensible, right? In… — Dave deBronkart 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
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
