Changed Quote by Ivan Illich

Malpractice tort reform can be something as commonsensical as the establishment of medical courts - similar to bankruptcy or admiralty courts - with special…

— Bill Bradley

“Much of the education doctors get in their four years of medical school and subsequent years of apprenticeship training is focused on teaching this…

— Lisa Sanders

I think we are faced in medicine with the reality that we have to be willing to talk about our failures and think hard…

— Atul Gawande

“The important question isn't how to keep bad physicians from harming patient; it's how to keep good physicians from harming patients. Medical malpractice suits…

— Atul Gawande

“After many years of using the medical profession, I concluded that it is infested with blatant incompetence.”

— Steven Magee

I'm a huge proponent of therapy and analysis, but it's something that, in a nonprofessional way, can be abused.

— Noah Baumbach

I thought there should in truth be heavy damages for malpractice on human souls.

— Owen Wister

There are doctors who help people who have done bad things; there are lawyers who defend bad people. I don't think it's unique to…

— Sean Spicer

“I put the word "diagnosis" in quotes because I have not yet seen that case in which a "diagnosis" led to a "cure," or…

— Joan Didion

The medical malpractice system is totally out of control. Everybody in the system knows it. And it's not just of the outrageous judgments, it's…

— Charles Krauthammer

“The answer isn’t to eliminate malpractice suits. The answer is to eliminate habitual malpractice, to teach the public to do away with frivolous claims…

— Noah Gordon

We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service…

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross