Jimmy Carter Quotes

Medicine really matured me as a person because, as a physician, you're obviously dealing with life and death issues, issues much more serious than what we're talking about in entertainment. You can't get more serious than life and death. And if you can handle that, you can handle anything.

Good physicians are rarely dispassionate. They agonize and self-doubt over patients.

It's hard to be a good doctor if you don't think about the social circumstances of who you're treating. There are many Tory doctors, but I think it's difficult to be a doctor and a genuine right-winger.

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.

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

We are trained to be medical doctors first and if you have to put neurosurgery aside to deal with the most vulnerable and susceptible patients, then that's what we'll do.

Once we as doctors are entrusted with the well-being of our patients and their children, it is our duty to take action, to be selfless, and fulfill our obligation to the service of others. I did so willingly, and it brought me great joy throughout my professional career. However, I always had a desire to do more.

I've always approached my job first as a physician. I'm here to help and take care of patients. I'm an administrator second.

The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes depend on them.

(Doctors) collectively have done more to block adequate medical care for people of this country than any other single group.

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.

I actually completely suck at being a bioethicist. What I do is history of medicine and patient advocacy. Patient advocacy is actually the opposite of bioethics, because bioethicists are the people who increasingly set up and justify the systems we patient advocates have to fight.

My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor for making money off of cancer?

I always knew I wanted to be a doctor, but I also knew that being a doctor meant more than treating just the patient in front of you.

I often think that the prime directive for me as a teacher of writing is akin to that for a physician, which is this: do no harm.

I'm a physician first and foremost. I will always be a physician.

Whether it's possible or not, being a doctor, you take an oath. To care for your patient, not to kill them. You take an oath to do things that are proper in the medical world. Not to administer something outside of a hospital setting that's not even your area.

When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays.

The vast majority of doctors really do try to take the money out of their minds. But to provide the best possible care requires using resources in a way that keeps you viable but improves the quality of care.

If you're a doctor, what do you promise to do? First, do no harm. If your operating philosophy is do no harm, that's not a call to imagination. Not only that, if I'm a patient, I don't want your imagination. I want what works.

I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.

No doctor should ever have to call an insurance man to ask permission to treat a patient who is standing right there.