Bill Quote by Steven Magee

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

“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

“Without question, the notion of the doctor as a legitimate fee-for-service entrepreneur, making his fortune from misfortunes of is patients, is old-fashioned, distasteful, and…

— Michael Crichton

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

— George W. Merck

What should be the glory of the profession is that a doctor should be able to meet his patients with no financial anxiety.

— Aneurin Bevan

The efforts of the medical profession in the US to control:...its...job it proposes to monopolize. It has been carrying on a vigorous campaign all…

— Clarence Darrow

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

You have a very common disease if you are sick of high doctor fees.

— Vikrant Parsai

“The only way to have a truly integrated medical model in this country is for ALL medical disciplines to have equal protection under the…

— Peter Glidden

“A traditional doctor gets paid to push pills, vaccinate, radiate, and basically exterminate people. No different than a contract killer—except the hit man is…

— Jarod Kintz

“Several years ago, I realized that I didn’t want to spend all my life in medicine. It had me in a sort of spiritual…

— Richard S. Weeder

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