Authority Quote by Thomas Frank

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

The principal villain in rising health care costs is the government. Not pharmaceutical companies, not doctors, but government.

— Neal Boortz

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

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

“There are more politics in modern medicine than in modern politics itself. Today's average physician deserves even less trust than today's average politician, as…

— Thomas E. Levy

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

— George W. Merck

In the last century the practice of medicine has become no more than an adjunct to the pharmaceutical industry and the other aspects of…

— Vernon Coleman

Over the past two decades the pharmaceutical industry has moved very far from its original high purpose of discovering and producing useful new drugs.…

— Marcia Angell

The public relies on the advice of doctors and leading researchers. The public has a right to know about financial relationships between those doctors…

— Chuck Grassley

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

“pharmaceutical companies spend tens of billions of pounds every year trying to change the treatment decisions of doctors: in fact, they spend twice as…

— Ben Goldacre

“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