Frans van Houten Quotes

Medicine considers the human body as to the means by which it is cured and by which it is driven away from health.

Each and every day health centers provide high-quality primary and preventive care to our constituents.

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

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

Health care providers, saving lives daily in our emergency rooms, live with federal mandates.

In writing the history of a disease, every philosophical hypothesis whatsoever, that has previously occupied the mind of the author, should lie in abeyance.

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.

Remedies, indeed, are our great analysers of disease.

Nurses serve their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve as our first lines of communication when something goes wrong or when we are concerned about health.

The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed.

What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?

Primary care must never be seen simply as a set of organisational structures.

Where patient needs are complex, we should provide greater support in the community so that patients can cut down on trips to the tertiary hospital.

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.

I'm not against high-tech medicine. It has a secure place in the diagnosis and treatment of serious disease.

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.

A hospital ought to be a house of healing, not a monument to paperwork and bureaucracy.

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

It takes a village to run the Big Man - a village of doctors.

We need a significant amount of market stability, not for the insurance companies, but to ensure patients can get access to the care they want.

There is an enormous amount of options that a physician can provide today, right down from curing patients, treating patients, or providing patients with psychic solace or pain relief. So, in fact, the gamut of medical intervention is enormous.

If we can keep you healthy, that is better. If you fall sick, you go to the hospital. Both sides, Philips is present.

The disease and its medicine are like two factions in a besieged town; they tear one another to pieces, but both unite against their common enemy, Nature.

Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey.

Let no one suppose that the words doctor and patient can disguise from the parties the fact that they are employer and employee.