"Most of us take it for granted that……" — Charles W. Pickering
"Most of us take it for granted that the person performing our radiologic procedures is a competent professional. But the fact is, poorly trained individuals examine and treat thousands of patients in this country every day."
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Charles W. Pickering
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26 Quotes by Charles W. Pickering
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The CARE bill is an important piece of patient-care legislation. It will improve the quality of radiologic procedures performed throughout…
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Twenty-first century medicine must not be confined to a twentieth-century bureaucracy.
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The public airwaves provide a chance to affirm we want to be a good, decent people; a good, decent nation.
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