Cost Quote by Ezekiel Emanuel

Vague promises of savings from cutting waste, enhancing prevention and wellness, installing electronic medical records and improving quality are merely lipstick cost control, more…

— Ezekiel Emanuel

When I took the Hippocratic oath and was effectively 'sworn in' as a doctor, I took the same vow that doctors have taken for…

— Ami Bera

“Doctors generally adhere to the Hippocratic oath, where they swear to abide by an ethical code, where they swear to act, always, in their…

— Roxane Gay

I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.

— Anonymous

Patient autonomy is paramount to the oath that we take when we enter the profession of medicine. That is why I am appalled when…

— Ami Bera

“Hippocrates was so great that today’s doctors still take the Oath of Hippocrates (though it has been modified during the 20th century)”

— Terry Deary

Doctors have an ethical duty to follow the practices and standards of care.

— Bob McDonnell

Though moral axioms to guide the conduct of the practitioner have existed since the beginnings of the profession of healing, Western doctors are most…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

“For patients to claim a right to any procedures they wish is to challenge a conscientious physician’s integrity as a physician.”

— Edmund D. Pellegrino

“Doctors are supposed to first do no harm, but when it comes to fat bodies, most doctors seem fundamentally incapable of heeding their oath.”

— Roxane Gay

Whether it's possible or not, being a doctor, you take an oath. To care for your patient, not to kill them. You take an…

— Jermaine Jackson

“In the end, you have to do what's right. There's a higher good, always, to be found. You have to find it, that's all.…

— Mary-Rose MacColl