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
Over the years, HIV/AIDS activists and their allies have been pioneers in creating new frontiers in the medical establishment. Through their efforts,… — David Mixner Copy Share Image
As a practicing neurologist, I can tell you first hand that working with Parkinson's patients offers clinical challenges. But from an emotional… — David Perlmutter Copy Share Image
When you start talking about the patients' bill of rights and all the benefits that are in there, people agree with all… — Bart Stupak Copy Share Image
If I get hit by a bus tomorrow, my patients will not even be postponed. Another surgeon would step in and take… — Atul Gawande 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
Sometimes the media gives us the impression that we are terminal patients, because of problems of global warmth or the ozone layer.… — Jaime Lerner Copy Share Image
I was a heart surgeon before I came to Congress, and I've worked many holidays on behalf of my patients. — Larry Bucshon 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
If we include hedonistic philosophy in hospitals, the lives of patients suffering from cancer would be much, much better. — Michel Onfray 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… — Marcia Angell Copy Share Image
The bulk of my learning - if I may call it such - has come within the past three months, after I… — Lance Loud Copy Share Image
We need to learn and embrace patience. Patience is a holy key that will unlock the door to a more fulfilling life.… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
When we talk about equal pay for equal work, women in the workplace are beginning to catch up. If we keep going… — Lya Sorano Copy Share Image
“Sometimes what a person expresses in their eyes is more than all the books you could read on suffering.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Medicare is immune from the competitive pressures that force private insurers to pay attention to what patients and doctors want. — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
Why are cancer patients so hard to buy for? This question always puzzles me. When people are healthy, things are so simple,… — Jenna Morasca Copy Share Image
My deceased patients have taught me over the years to believe in the glass half full, to make good use of the… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
As a young physician in the mid-'80s, caring for people who had contracted H.I.V., I lost two of my patients to suicide… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Physicians today, as human beings, are not exempt from the perverse economic pressures created by fee-for-service regimes to see more patients for… — Mitch Kapor Copy Share Image
Ever since Katrina, there has been a proliferation of efforts at the state level and among hospital administrators to come up with… — Sheri Fink Copy Share Image
As a physician, I would never encroach upon the religious freedoms of my patients. — Ami Bera Copy Share Image
What we're really trying to do is level out the health care system. It has gotten so one-sided as more and more… — Charlie Norwood Copy Share Image
The 2 million people who work in the NHS and social care are also themselves patients and users. I know they all… — Patricia Hewitt Copy Share Image
