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
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
I have to tell you as a doctor, 25 years of practice, not as a politician using talking points, as somebody who… — John Barrasso Copy Share Image
Love is like a beautiful rose, it takes time and patience before it fully blossom. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have a duty to ensure that patients don't have to worry whether they'll be dropped from their coverage if they get… — Jeff Merkley Copy Share Image
Once I started working with older people, I realized how much I enjoyed the intellectual challenge of taking care of patients who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Modern medicine uses imaging 'windows' such as magnetic resonance imaging scanners to bring into view otherwise unseen vital information that skilled physicians… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
I had the opportunity of making necropsies on patients dead from malignant fever and of studying the melanaemia, i.e., the formation of… — Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran Copy Share Image
“Doctors who want power will do anything to get it; healers will do anything to get away from it.” — Aude Mermilliod 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
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 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
I was destined to work with dying patients. I had no choice when I encountered my first AIDS patient. I felt called… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
“Medical textbooks never talk about the pain that's caused by anything that doctors do... And many doctors think that the pain is… — Aude Mermilliod Copy Share Image
Patients can often be discharged from hospital, then re-admitted a few days later with complications. — Chris Toumazou Copy Share Image
Editors and their authors seldom form deep friendships for the same reason that psychiatrists and their patients keep their distance: The relationship… — Jason Epstein 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
Certain types of cancer patients are finally being cured thanks to immunotherapy. — Tasuku Honjo Copy Share Image
There's something universal about illness... Whether you like it, at some level all patients are saying, 'Daddy, Mommy, help me, tell me… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
We will empower patients as well as health professionals. We will disempower the hierarchy and bureaucracy. — Andrew Lansley 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
The pricing of a pharmaceutical product is opaque and frustrating, especially for patients. — Heather Bresch Copy Share Image
With tens of thousands of patients dying every year from preventable medical errors, it is imperative that we embrace available technologies and… — Jon Porter Copy Share Image
