Jeremy Hunt Quotes

If we are going to keep patients safe, then we have to make sure that doctors are able to learn from mistakes.

If people understood that doctors weren't divine, perhaps the odor of malpractice might diminish.

Doctors are human; they make mistakes, and you have to stay on top of them. You have to ask the second question, the third question, the follow-up to the fourth question.

I know that nurses are not only the largest healthcare profession but are responsible for the delivery of most healthcare, and are often in the best place to be able to see the whole pathway of care.

With tens of thousands of patients dying every year from preventable medical errors, it is imperative that we embrace available technologies and drastically improve the way medical records are handled and processed.

I think we are faced in medicine with the reality that we have to be willing to talk about our failures and think hard about them, even despite the malpractice system. I mean, there are things that we can do to make that system better.

Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.

Part of me thinks that innovation, real innovation in health care delivery, needs to happen from the bottom to the top.

We strive for error-free medicine in a world that is sometimes all too human.

There is no shortage of embarrassing facts about healthcare, and people die every day in the U.S. due to preventable errors - would you fly planes if you knew several of them would drop out of the sky every day?

We need an NHS with fewer managers, fewer contractors and more power (rather than choice) to patients - with the input of the real experts: healthcare professionals.

No matter what measures are taken, doctors will sometimes falter, and it isn't reasonable to ask that we achieve perfection. What is reasonable is to ask that we never cease to aim for it.

A great doctor kills more people than a great general.

Are doctors who make mistakes villains? No, because then we all are.

There's an opportunity for the pharmacist to play a much greater role in health care, especially with what we have going on in this country with the shortage of primary-care physicians.

If I'm a content creator, and I get recognition for my work, that's going to motivate me to spend even more time on my next production and make it even better.

These core principles - helping patients, preventing medical errors, promoting best practices and improving quality - are the reasons that health IT is featured in both the 2012 Republican platform and 2012 Democratic platform.

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

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

The best surgeon, like best general, is he who makes the fewest mistakes.

Doctors can do almost anything nowadays, can't they, unless they kill you while they're trying to cure you.

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

I like being on the side of healthcare consumer.

I believe our health care system is in drastic need of innovative, patient-centered reforms that encourage competition and increase consumer choice, not the bloated bureaucracy, tax increases, rationing, and mandates in the president's government takeover.

What we are doing is we are putting in significant training into the people we have currently to upgrade their skill resources, upgrade the presentation resources, and upgrade what we expect from them in terms of not business as usual.