Patrick Soon-Shiong Quotes

I think the media can be a very positive influence by essentially holding people to task about the importance of high quality medical care. And when the media is scrutinizing you, then I think that's a very good, positive thing for the field of medicine.

If someone wants to know about Scientology, they should just go and read about it themselves. That's the best way to do it.

Don't denounce, just state the facts.

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

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

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

The best way to get the news is from objective sources, and the most objective sources I have are people on my staff who tell me what's happening in the world.

I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.

Journalists should recalibrate themselves to be more skeptical of the consensus of their peers. That’s because a position that seems to have deep backing from the evidence may really just be a reflection from the echo chamber. You should be looking toward how much evidence there is for a particular position as opposed to how many people hold that position: having 20 independent pieces of evidence that mostly point in the same direction might indeed reflect a powerful consensus, while having 20 like-minded people citing the same warmed-over evidence is much less powerful.

Algorithms are opinions embedded in code. It’s really different from what you think most people think of algorithms. They think algorithms are objective and true and scientific. That’s a marketing trick. It’s also a marketing trick to intimidate you with algorithms, to make you trust and fear algorithms because you trust and fear mathematics. A lot can go wrong when we put blind faith in big data.

I reject the idea that journalists are messengers of the truth. It’s arrogant. I think journalism is a search for the little relative truths that at best keep us relatively sane.

A whole range of things are done to ensure services remain safe and sustainable because that is the absolute paramount duty of the health board.

No matter how the Supreme Court rules on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, states are making progress in developing strategies to provide more access to quality health care coverage.

The journalist cannot create his subjects any more than the analyst can create his patients.

A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism.

I think my viewers want smart, honest programming. They don't want to be told what makes them feel good.

On television, I tried to absolutely hew to the middle of the road and not show any prejudice or bias in any way.

My position's always been we need to build on successes within ACA, fix the problems.

Luckily, even when people are shouting lies, the truth is undamaged. Science doesn't matter what you believe.

I think that any channel, whether it's Fox, CNN, or whatever, if they were truly giving a 360-view of what's going on, we would be better equipped to not slap judgments on people we really don't understand.

The Food and Drug Administration works to protect the interests of all patients and provide them with reliable information about the potential effects of treatments. But government rules should not stand in the way of potentially lifesaving therapies for those who do not have much time or any other options.

I support repeal, but I think we ought to also spend time on the replacement side of that. The Republican approach has never been, 'Let's get rid of this,' but, 'Let's replace it with something that does deal with a very real problem in our healthcare system.' And that is the entry's cost and lack of coverage.

Medical care is one of the only sectors in which Americans are asked to make significant, long-term decisions without knowing the exact price of those decisions up front. Americans deserve to make informed decisions about their medical options.

Health reform should be open and transparent.

For the VA to thrive as an integrated health care network, it must be agile and adaptive.