Business Quote by Abraham Verghese

Without question, the true goal of some in Congress is to create a system of socialized medicine. It's politically expedient to slap a 'patients'…

— Ron Paul

Medicine is for the patient. Medicine is for the people. It is not for the profits.

— George W. Merck

“If doctors practiced medicine the way many companies practice management, there would be far more sick and dead patients, and many more doctors would…

— Jeffrey Pfeffer

The fact of the matter is right now politicians and insurance companies are making decisions. We're saying we want doctors to be making decisions.…

— Peter Orszag

Money has transformed every watchdog, every independent authority. Medical doctors are increasingly gulled by the lobbying of pharmaceutical salesmen.

— Thomas Frank

Now, it is sometimes said that medical care is too important to be left to the market, and that it is immoral to profit…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

Most people are squeamish about saying how much they earn, but in medicine the situation seems especially fraught. Doctors aren't supposed to be in…

— Atul Gawande

In the last century the practice of medicine has become no more than an adjunct to the pharmaceutical industry and the other aspects of…

— Vernon Coleman

Government is not the doctor. It is the disease.

— H S Ferns

Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?

— Garry Trudeau

The efforts of the medical profession in the US to control:...its...job it proposes to monopolize. It has been carrying on a vigorous campaign all…

— Clarence Darrow

I think doctors care very deeply about their patients, but when they organize into the AMA, their responsibility is to the welfare of doctors,…

— Jimmy Carter