Joanne Liu Quotes

Doctors have an ethical duty to follow the practices and standards of care.

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.

Ethically, I think pretty much every code of ethics for doctors suggests that they should not be in an interrogation room, particularly if there's anything coercive or abusive going on.

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.

When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.

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

Nowhere is inhumanity more revealed than in hospitals.

I don't trust doctors. It's not to say there ain't some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn't trust 'em at all.

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.

The punishment should fit the crime and if a doctor or drug company does harm knowingly or negligently to a patient they should be compensated to make them whole.

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.

The Hippocratic Oath says do no harm. It's the Hypocritical Oath that says do no harm to one's political future.

When I took the Hippocratic oath and was effectively 'sworn in' as a doctor, I took the same vow that doctors have taken for generations. Patient autonomy is core to this oath.

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

And then they sign an affidavit swearing that she's not in a vegetative stage. I'll tell you. That's a doctor you really want; they can look at a picture and make a diagnosis.

Committing unnecessary surgeries is very, very rare. And it's very wrong.

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

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

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

Performing unconsented surgeries is considered battery because the patient can't voice their opinion - they're unconscious.

With 'Cardiac Arrest,' I wanted to show that there were times when doctors really didn't care.

I think that the general public understands that its own doctors are human, fallible, and flawed.

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

There is alas no law against incompetency; no striking example is made. They learn by our bodily jeopardy and make experiments until the death of the patients, and the doctor is the only person not punished for murder.

Most people die in improvised circumstances of harassment and confusion, whether in hospital or out of it.