Malcolm Gladwell Quotes

I have to tell you as a doctor, 25 years of practice, not as a politician using talking points, as somebody who has taken care of Medicare patients, we can make it a lot better.

Physicians today, as human beings, are not exempt from the perverse economic pressures created by fee-for-service regimes to see more patients for shorter appointments and order more tests and procedures. If the incentives were changed to pay to foster better health outcomes, I am convinced physician behavior would change over time.

I think doctors are really suffering now. They're suffering in the sense that they feel torn between serving their patients in the best way they can and dealing with all of requirements of the insurance companies and the HMOs and the hassles and the paper work and the increasing pressures to do less and less for their patients.

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

As a doctor, I will take it and make it my mission to heal the nation, reverse the course of Obamacare, and repeal every last bit of it.

ObamaCare has accelerated many of the detrimental trends doctors see in their profession, and introduced new ones.

The Doctor's Motto: Have patients.

I have endeavored to show that there is no real service of humanity in the profession of medicine and that it is injurious to mankind.

I was working for the BJP even when I was practising medicine.

I was going to be a doctor, but who makes it as a doctor anymore?

I want to relax for a while, maybe go back to my medical practice. I got a lot of old patients waiting for me.

Part of what motivated my writing was anger. I was angry that the daily misery of doctors, nurses, and patients was being trivialised into soap opera. We were made to feel bad because we were not perfect like our television counterparts. We were resentful that our patients did not get better as quickly as they did on telly - or at all.

Too often, patients without a primary doctor go to expensive hospital emergency rooms for nonurgent care.

Arizona has excellent medical schools, both public and private, and it is critical that we create an environment that keeps medical students in Arizona to practice medicine once they complete medical school and their residency programs.

I tell everybody, no one understands how challenging and stressful practicing medicine is.

I am a career physician. I practiced for 32 years before I began my career as a public servant.

As someone who is a dedicated fan of the NHS, I'm extremely worried, I think its a very precious thing that needs to be nurtured, looked after.

I do think that VA, as the largest employer of nurses and the largest health system in the country, often does become a place where we can demonstrate advances in medical practice.

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

My childhood best friend is an anesthesiologist. It's the least amount of human interaction for a doctor. I don't think you can get that burned out on it.

I tell [medical students] that they are the luckiest persons on earth to be in medical school, and to forget all this worry about H.M.O.'s and keep your eye on helping the patient. It's the best time ever to be a doctor because you can heal and treat conditions that were untreatable even a couple of years ago.

There are some arts which to those that possess them are painful, but to those that use them are helpful, a common good to laymen, but to those that practise them grievous. Of such arts there is one which the Greeks call medicine. For the medical man sees terrible sights, touches unpleasant things, and the misfortunes of others bring a harvest of sorrows that are peculiarly his; but the sick by means of the art rid themselves of the worst of evils, disease, suffering, pain and death.

I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.

Let no one suppose that the words doctor and patient can disguise from the parties the fact that they are employer and employee.