Being Quote by Stephen J. Dubner

Doctors and hospitals should be paid for keeping their patients well. Paying them for doing more tests and surgeries creates bad incentives.

— Richard Thaler

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

Physicians today, as human beings, are not exempt from the perverse economic pressures created by fee-for-service regimes to see more patients for shorter appointments…

— Mitch Kapor

The vast majority of doctors really do try to take the money out of their minds. But to provide the best possible care requires…

— Atul Gawande

Meaningful health reform needs to provide incentives for physicians and other health professionals to teach their patients healthy ways of living rather than reimbursing…

— Dean Ornish

Medicine is for the patient. Medicine is for the people. It is not for the profits.

— George W. Merck

Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.

— Denis Diderot

Medical costs are soaring because our health-care system is totally screwed up. Doctors and hospitals have every incentive to spend on unnecessary tests, drugs,…

— Robert Reich

“vast majority of physicians agree that unmet social needs are a direct cause of poor health.”

— Dwight McNeill

Increasingly we know that we're going to have multiple medical conditions, and the person who's got the greatest incentive to manage those conditions is…

— Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

We need total health more than medically approved health. Our wellness should not be limited to our doctor's experience, but enhanced by our own…

— Andrew Saul

We have medicalized a lot of things that I think are not really medical conditions.

— Darold Treffert