Dave deBronkart Quotes

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• I am here on behalf of all the patients that I have ever met, all the ones I haven't met. This is about letting patients…
• The most underutilized resource in all of health care is the patient.
• Patients know what patients want to know.
• Where does my body end and an invader start? And cancer, a tumor, is something you grow out of your own tissue. How does that…
• Think about the possibility: why is it that iPhones and iPads advance far faster than the health tools that are available to you to help…
• Too often, hospital staff are incented by management to get work done without worrying about care, and clinicians are too often not even trained to…
• Careful writing is important for many reasons, not least that intelligent but hurried reporters will trust the presser, resulting in a cascade of secondary damage.
• One of the most stubborn barriers to patient empowerment is the cultural assumption that since the way professionals learned was hard, you must need to…
• In other industries, value is defined by the ultimate stakeholder - the one who benefits, or not, from the service. We should do the same…
• Please, let patients help improve healthcare. Let patients help steer our decisions, strategic and practical. Let patients help define what value in medicine is.
• I advocate for a totally new view of the role of the patient: patient as engaged partner, not passive recipient.
• I want to be clear: not all patient communities are great, any more than online communities of any sort. But when a good one gets…

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