Medicine Quote by George W. Merck Download Open image “Medicine is for the patient. Medicine is for the people. It is not for the profits.” — George W. Merck ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Medicine Patience Patient People Profit
We try to remember that medicine is for the patient. We try never to forget that medicine is for the people. It is not… — George W. Merck Copy Share Image
Now, it is sometimes said that medical care is too important to be left to the market, and that it is immoral to profit from the illnesses of others. I say medical care is too important to be left to the failed central plans of the political class. And as for profiting from providing medical care, we can never be… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share
Medicine, as we are practising it, is a luxury trade. We are selling bread at the price of jewels... Let us take the profit,… — Norman Bethune Copy Share Image
The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised… — William Osler Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Most people are squeamish about saying how much they earn, but in medicine the situation seems especially fraught. Doctors aren't supposed to be in… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
Research is subordinated (not to a long-term social benefit) but to an immediate commercial profit. Currently, disease (not health) is one of the major… — Pierre Bosquet Copy Share Image
Medicine is not merely a science but an art. The character of the physician may act more powerfully upon the patient than the drugs… — Paracelsus Copy Share Image
“If doctors practiced medicine the way many companies practice management, there would be far more sick and dead patients, and many more doctors would… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
Big Pharma needs sick people to prosper. Patients, not healthy people, are their customers. If everybody was cured of a particular illness or disease,… — James Morcan Copy Share Image
The profits follow, and if we have remembered that, they have never failed to appear. — George W. Merck Copy Share Image
We try to remember that medicine is for the patient. We try never to forget that medicine is for the people. It is not… — George W. Merck Copy Share Image
Any method which appears to offer advantages to a nation at war will be vigorously employed by that nation. There is but one logical… — George W. Merck Copy Share Image
I think people need to be comfortable questioning the authority of a doctor. — Susannah Cahalan Copy Share Image
Tell the truth about your wound, and then you will get a truthful picture of the remedy to apply to it. Don't pack whatever… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
“the doctor hesitated before breaking the news to her. "those aren't stars. it's cancer." - forty years a smoker” — Amanda Lovelace Copy Share Image
Making sure that people have access to preventive medicine for the first time ever as a nation? That's a big deal. — Brad Schneider Copy Share Image
being asked to decide between your passion for work and your passion for children was like being asked by your doctor whether you preferred… — Helen Bevington Copy Share Image
We ought to observe that practice which is the hardest of all-especially for young physicians-we ought to throw in no medicine at all-to abstain-to… — John Randolph of Roanoke Copy Share Image
“old-fashioned, gentle Scottish physician, unmoved by the considerations of profit and personal gain that could so disfigure medicine. That doctors should consider themselves businessmen… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Do you think that was kind? Do you think it was godlike? What would you think of a physician, if a woman came to… — Helen H. Gardener Copy Share Image
The World Health Organisation has a lot of its medical experts sitting in Geneva while hospitals in Africa have no drugs and desperate patients… — Pauline Hanson Copy Share Image
Antidepressants are the biggest fraud in the world. Number one, Prozac gives you a royal soft-on like you wouldn't believe, and number two you… — Robert Evans Copy Share Image
“I intend to study love as well as medicine, for it is one of the most mysterious and remarkable diseases that afflict mankind, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
