Laurel Clark Quotes

Doctors and patients need as much data as possible to make an informed decision about what treatment is best.

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.

As medical data has such power to deliver better understanding of disease and better patient outcomes, it is important we find the best way of sharing it.

Advances in technology and in our understanding of illness and disease together with an expanded workforce and greater resources will allow us to provide more services to a higher quality.

The good-news stories in medicine are early detection, early intervention.

The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.

We'd like to have immediate answers to all of our questions. I think medicine in particular. I found it frustrating as a physician sometimes to not be able to tell someone exactly why something was happening to them. There are still so many mysteries in medicine.

If we practiced medicine like we practice education, we'd look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years.

The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.

Nearly every business collects metrics on inventory, sales, and workplace process. Health care has been slow to measure these kinds of outcomes. Increasingly, general medicine, via either managed care or large practice settings, is improving by collecting data through electronic records and refining practice based on what works.

I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician.

I love the opportunity to help my patients, to work with them to find the best course of action to get them healthy and to give them the information they need to stay healthy.

We don't have enough data about how lifestyle decisions impact our health.

The goal of having more and more information is really to better be able to predict what is your health outcome going to be.

In medicine, we spend billions each year on doing and a fraction of that amount on listening and reflecting.

We have an opportunity to create a future where we are actually encouraging providers to keep people away from acute care, whenever possible.

Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.

You don't just wake up one day with dementia or Alzheimer's; these conditions are developmental. Even when a problem triggers the need to collect data, it's reviewed by a specialist and filed away. There's no central repository allowing information to be shared across a multitude of researchers worldwide.

To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.

We need to bridge the gap between the medical libraries and the hospital rooms; take the information out there already, add to it, focus it, harness it - and bring it to the patient who was just diagnosed today.

Computerized medical records will enable statistical analysis to be used to determine which treatments are most effective.

Well, I would never do a study because I'm a practicing physician. I mean, all I do is treat people.

It is education that will arm us with the tools that will enable us to succeed and put a stop to the rising rates of preventable death.

I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come.

In these days when science is clearly in the saddle and when our knowledge of disease is advancing at a breathless pace, we are apt to forget that not all can ride and that he also serves who waits and who applies what the horseman discovers.