Florence Nightingale Quotes

A Patients' Bill of Rights is at the center of our national existence.

Doctors have an ethical duty to follow the practices and standards of care.

Every profession will have its rogues, of course, no matter what oaths are sworn, but many health care professionals have a real commitment to serving the best interests of their clients.

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.

Our interaction as patients with the NHS should be on the basis that there's a presumption that all information is shared with us.

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.

In hospital, people should be able to have time to themselves.

Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?

As a physician, I would never encroach upon the religious freedoms of my patients.

One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.

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.

As a clinician, I would never want to be coercive in relation to a patient, nor do I harbor the illusion that as a physician I am capable of forcing someone to change their behavior, no matter how detrimental to their health.

As my mentor in Medical School, Dr William Strong taught me: Never wear a white coat; it separates you from a fellow human being. I never have from that day on. You are your patients guide, counselor, and defender, not their ruler and dictator.

Obviously it's always hard when you tell a patient you can't help them, because maybe it's a physical constraint with the surgery, but in regards to telling a patient that they're not realistic and they're not appropriate psychological candidates, we're pretty used to it.

I'm opposed to anybody getting between me and the patient.

Luckily for me, I don't depend on seeing every patient who comes through my door to pay the rent, and so if someone is involved in an activity that I don't like, I just don't accept that person as a client.

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

… we are merely the servants of the public, in spite of our M.d. ’s and our hospital appointments

The paternalism of the medical industry is insane.

The fact that doctors tend to treat people as individuals, guided by the need to ensure patient confidentiality, can reinforce this pattern of seeing the changes and challenges aging brings on through our heads and our bodies, rather than as a shared experience.

Compassionate doctors sometimes lie to patients about the severity of their condition, and it is not always wrong to do so.

Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.

The hospital industry to this day works its tail off to do the right thing.

Who makes decisions for families across America? Should it be a family with their doctor, or should it be some unelected bureaucrat in Washington?