Probably most dying patients, even when suffering greatly, would choose to live as long as possible. That courage and grace should be… — Marcia Angell Copy Share Image
It's important right now to continue to have your patients contact their senators and their congresspeople to say we have a problem.… — Charlie Norwood Copy Share Image
“The pressure remains all in one direction, toward doing more, because the only mistake clinicians seem to fear is doing too little.… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
I'm training to become a giggle doctor. It's a kind of hospital clown who changes the atmosphere on the ward and helps… — Nina Conti Copy Share Image
Early in my career, I was disappointed that psychoanalysis was not becoming more empirical, was not becoming more scientific. It was primarily… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
Patients are becoming aware that they're being taken for a ride by big pharma companies. They charge high prices and have never… — Yusuf Hamied 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
We tend not to use the biggest resource in healthcare - the patients themselves. So I'm trying to figure out possible uses… — Lucien Engelen Copy Share Image
Economists specialize in pointing out unpleasant trade-offs - a skill that is on full display in the health care debate. We want… — Sendhil Mullainathan Copy Share Image
Cancer has taught me a lot of things. Maybe it is the best thing that has happened to me. I can't say… — Yuvraj Singh 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
“EDS is a scary and challenging diagnosis, but the consequences of not knowing are far greater than that of a correct diagnosis.… — Michael Bihovsky 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
I've been focused on detecting nuclear terrorism at ports, in cargo containers, and I developed and built detectors that are extremely cheap… — Taylor Wilson 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
In 1878, after having finished my course of instruction at the School of Military Medicine of Val-de-Grace, I was sent to Algeria… — Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran Copy Share Image
“It was a lesson she was still learning. When she had first started nursing, she had taken every death personally, like she… — Andrea Lochen Copy Share Image
“Dr. Richard Selzer is a surgeon and a favorite author of mine. He writes the most beautiful and compassionate descriptions of his… — James C. Dobson Copy Share Image
“According to Block, about two-thirds of patients are willing to undergo therapies they don’t want if that is what their loved ones… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
Patients can often be discharged from hospital, then re-admitted a few days later with complications. — Chris Toumazou Copy Share Image
Certain types of cancer patients are finally being cured thanks to immunotherapy. — Tasuku Honjo Copy Share Image
'The Who' created the Daltrey/Townshend Center at UCLA for teenage hospital patients with cancer. It's the only one of its kind. — Nolan Sotillo 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
Depression can seem worse than terminal cancer, because most cancer patients feel loved and they have hope and self-esteem. — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
Every cent that goes to research is changing the lives of patients and their families right now. — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
As a physician, I would never encroach upon the religious freedoms of my patients. — Ami Bera Copy Share Image
HealthWell is just one of several foundations that assist patients in making their insurance co-payments for expensive drugs. — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
For me, the ability to use semiconductor sequencing to provide a medical diagnosis in just a few hours that once took days… — Chris Toumazou 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
The nanofibrillar scaffolds designed to guide the process of cellular repopulation is an important step towards prolonging life and enhancing the quality… — Magdi Yacoub Copy Share Image
“Patients, when hearing the news, mostly remain mute. (One of the early meanings of patient, after all, is “one who endures hardship… — Paul Kalanithi Copy Share Image
Value in medicine depends on information - as I said in 'Let Patients Help,' 'People perform better when they're informed better.' It… — Dave deBronkart Copy Share Image
Reducing the price of AIDS drugs gave me so much satisfaction that I've been thinking what else I could do. One day,… — Yusuf Hamied Copy Share Image
Patients want to be seen as people. For me, the person's life comes first; the disease is simply one aspect of it,… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
We've been finding that when you empower engineers, scientists, and coders, they respond by creating new tools to empower physicians, patients, and… — Kathleen Sebelius Copy Share Image
