Sheri Fink Quotes

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

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

As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.

People don't trust the federal government as it relates to 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.

Medical liability reform is not a Republican or Democrat issue or even a doctor versus lawyer issue. It is a patient issue.

I have profoundly mixed feelings about the Affordable Care Act. What I love about it is its impulse. It attempts to deal with this intractable problem in American health care life, which is that a significant portion of the population does not have access to quality medical care.

There are some great questions to ask your doctor. If he says 'no,' then you find yourself a different doctor. There really has to be a change in how we medically look at women at this time. I mean, this is not just baby gloom.

It is my passionate belief that we can all have better health care through rationing.

I believe in health care reform.

The vast majority of people who speak to me say they have had brilliant care. When they are critical, their concern tends not to be directed at the medical side but the ancillary things that surround it, such as helping patients to eat meals, cleanliness, and making sure that when patients have a problem, they are listened to.

America's doctors, nurses and medical researchers are the best in the world, but our health care system is broken.

As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.

There's a lot of arrogance in the medical community. There are good, reliable websites you can go to for information - the Mayo Clinic, the Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins.

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?

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

No health care provider may be penalized for discussing medically necessary or appropriate care with or on behalf of his or her patient.

It is inevitable that we are going to have to ration health care in the United States.

We ration health care now. We just don’t ration very rationally.

I like being on the side of healthcare consumer.

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

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

The “right to death" can easily become a threat to the life of patients whose treatment is hampered by lack of funds.

I want a national health policy where everyone is covered—just like we have in the military.

It is not only a moral imperative that we cover everybody (with insured heath care), it has become an economic necessity.