Medicine Quote by David B. Nash

“Evidence based medicine is meant to ensure that quality treatment options are chosen and diagnosis is based on empirical evidence rather than personal assumptions.…

— Bertalan Mesko

“Rather than measuring results and rewarding excellent providers with more patients, the focus has been on lifting all boats by attempting to raise all…

— Michael E. Porter

What I learned from my work as a physician is that even with the most complicated patients, the most complicated problems, you've got to…

— Jim Yong Kim

Doctors and patients need as much data as possible to make an informed decision about what treatment is best.

— Ben Goldacre

“pharmaceutical companies spend tens of billions of pounds every year trying to change the treatment decisions of doctors: in fact, they spend twice as…

— Ben Goldacre

Value in medicine depends on information - as I said in 'Let Patients Help,' 'People perform better when they're informed better.' It follows that…

— Dave deBronkart

“Competition on value must revolve around results. The results that matter are patient outcomes per unit of cost at the medical condition level.”

— Michael E. Porter

Doctors' positions and recommendations about drugs, procedures, surgical interventions, health and nutrition are not always based on strong scientific evidence.

— Joel Fuhrman

“We want progress in medicine to be clear and unequivocal, but of course it rarely is. Every new treatment has gaping unknowns - for…

— Atul Gawande

Research must be central to healthcare if healthcare is to improve.

— Mark Walport

“Broken payment models. Because we rely on insurance companies to pay for care, the treatments offered are not necessarily the most effective or those…

— Chris Kresser

Throughout our history we have been tireless advocates for expanding access to high-quality, affordable medicine. This is especially true in the area of HIV/AIDS.

— Heather Bresch