Ezekiel Emanuel Quotes

When we're talking about medical care we're talking about our sense of values. Do we think human life is important? Do we think that the best medical care which is available is something to which people are entitled, by virtue of belonging to a civilized community?

I like being on the side of healthcare consumer.

I have seen the healthcare system from many angles, including as a patient.

We can't socialize the doctors without socializing the patients.

(Doctors) collectively have done more to block adequate medical care for people of this country than any other single group.

Services provided to individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens are not basic and should not be guaranteed. An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia.

In order to have good health care you need a patient and you need a health care provider.

My whole professional life has been dedicated to improving access, affordability, quality and choice of health care.

Patient autonomy is paramount to the oath that we take when we enter the profession of medicine. That is why I am appalled when the federal government gets between my patients and their right to the full range of medical information and complete access to health care.

My job as a physician is to make sure I have provided my patients with the best options to make the decisions that affect their lives.

Scores of Congolese die each day unnecessarily due to the lack of access to healthcare and modern medicine.

Be an advocate for your loved ones in the hospital. Ask tough questions of your local hospital and health system about preparedness for the likeliest emergencies, and express your views on how medical resources should be allocated in case they ever fall short.

I believe in health care reform.

In turn, more physicians, hospitals, and other health care providers are severely limiting their practices, moving to other states, or simply not providing care.

We say here that if you fall down in the United States, the ambulance man must feel for your wallet before he feels for your pulse.

We can have the best health insurance options in the world, and people still won't get needed care if we don't increase our supply of primary care physicians and nurses.

We set up the promised clinic for the sick and wounded Masai.

I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.

My doctor is wonderful. Once, in 1955, when I couldn't afford an operation, he touched up the X-rays.

I had the privilege of practicing medicine in the early '60s, before we had any government. It worked rather well, and there was nobody on the street suffering with no medical care.

No doctor should ever have to call an insurance man to ask permission to treat a patient who is standing right there.

We must always make sure that our doctors work for their patients and not for the government

My advice to the Sultan is to build hospitals for sick Muslims, with a staff of physicians and attendants who will cure them and minister to their needs

Never again are we going to have a little old lady, sick as a dog, turned away from a hospital because she has no money.

It may seem a strange principal to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm.