Care Quote by Atul Gawande

Once you start to ask patients about their priorities, you discover what they're living for. Once you uncover that, it helps you, as a…

— Atul Gawande

It is one thing to choose to go into a hospice; it's another thing to get on the air and tell everybody about it.

— Art Buchwald

There is survival behavior, and doctors need to learn from patients who do not die when they are supposed to, instead of saying, 'You're…

— Bernie Siegel

The purpose of a doctor or any human in general should not be to simply delay the death of the patient, but to increase…

— Patch Adams

“Palliative care isn’t only for the dying: any patient with serious symptoms or communication needs can benefit. But for patients approaching the end of…

— Jessica Nutik Zitter

Palliative care is something that you don't know you need until you're in the space where you need it, either from someone who has…

— Jacky Rosen

At the end of the day, that physician needs to be in the mix telling patients what their habits ought to be and whether…

— Miles D. White

My job as a physician is to make sure I have provided my patients with the best options to make the decisions that affect…

— Ami Bera

Providing patients and consumers with solid information on the cost and quality of their healthcare options can literally make the difference between life or…

— Timothy Murphy

As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise…

— Jack Kevorkian

I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.

— Jack Kevorkian

My priorities are always the children and the elderly when it comes to our healthcare system, as both groups are unable to help themselves.

— Angela Stanton-King