Agatha Christie Quotes

Many of us are alarmed at the skyrocketing cost of medical care, including patients, who are the consumers. However, medical malpractice is not the reason for these increasing costs.

There is a pervasive lack of accountability in medicine that extends from the most newly qualified doctor right through the most senior professors.

The new triad of medicine: a doctor, a patient and an accountant.

Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.

I confidently affirm that the greater part of those who are supposed to have died of gout, have died of the medicine rather than the disease - a statement in which I am supported by observation.

Hospitals are about healing.

Remember, I'm a doctor's daughter. So obviously I'm interested in all medical things.

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

The practice of physic [Medicine] is jostled by quacks on the one side, and by science on the other.

In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods, than in giving health to men.

Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.

The blunders of a doctor are felt not by himself but by others.

If we become ill, modern medicine can work healing miracles.

Everyone gets sick, and everyone has to go.

Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.

Many years ago doctors would bleed sick patients with leeches. Today, the insurance companies do that.

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.

What we need are more good doctors and fewer bad health plans.

You had to be tough to survive being in the hospital during the Civil War.

I like being on the side of healthcare consumer.

Some things I don't compromise on. Health care is one of them.

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

We have a lot of great hospitals in America, across the country.

In medicine, all over the world, there are always going to be mistakes made.