Able Quote by Lisa Edelstein

As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise…

— Jack Kevorkian

My job as the doctor is to provide my patients with the information and services they need to make the best decisions for them…

— Leana S. Wen

I am an advocate for going to the doctor and going every year. I make sure that part of the checkup is spent talking…

— Andie MacDowell

As a physician, I understand how important it is to collect data on people so we can understand what's happening with them. I will…

— Laurel Clark

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

I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician. I think it's very upfront. I am a doctor. I have long experience with heart…

— Robert Jarvik

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

Physicians can't really dictate our protocols. They can inform us to the extent that they can as to what would best serve us, because…

— Maya Tiwari

I think that the general public understands that its own doctors are human, fallible, and flawed.

— Jed Mercurio

The best doctors and the best hospitals in America, if they cannot get the patient information they need when they need it, it can…

— Timothy Murphy

I realized in order to be involved in health policy, you really had to understand more than the individual patient that we as physicians,…

— Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey

Are you willing to spend time studying the issues, making yourself aware, and then conveying that information to family and friends? Will you resist…

— Ronald Reagan