Consulting Quote by Garry Trudeau

Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale. Medicine, as a social science, as the science…

— Rudolf Virchow

I think legislation needs to put an end to doctors profiting on businesses to which they can funnel patients - that is business, not…

— Abraham Verghese

A doctor can only treat patients. A doctor can only help the people who are shot or who are injured. But a politician can…

— Malala Yousafzai

I think doctors care very deeply about their patients, but when they organize into the AMA, their responsibility is to the welfare of doctors,…

— Jimmy Carter

The politics have always been difficult in medicine. There is some truth in the way medical practice is portrayed in TV dramas.

— Barry Marshall

Do we really want Washington administrators coming between us and our doctors?

— Foster Friess

We need to take politics out of health care. Congress will cave to pretty much any special interest on the subject.

— Jim Cooper

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

— Anonymous

“I find that my patients are far more sensible, and far less histrionic, about the realities of this process than their elected representatives are.”

— Willie Parker

Government is not the doctor. It is the disease.

— H S Ferns

Without question, the true goal of some in Congress is to create a system of socialized medicine. It's politically expedient to slap a 'patients'…

— Ron Paul

Politicians should not be making personal medical decisions for other people.

— Leana S. Wen