Harold Ramis Quotes

I welcome the President and working with him to try to get some of that medical malpractice reform so we can get the cost of health care to come down.

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.

Reform of the medical liability system should be considered as part of a comprehensive response to surging medical malpractice premiums that endanger Americans' access to quality medical care.

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

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

Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.

Operating-room errors hold a special terror for patients, if only because they seem like the most avoidable kind of complications. The occasional horror stories of patients who have the wrong leg removed or the wrong knee replaced generate the most headlines, as do tales of patients whose identities are mixed up entirely.

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.

Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients.

In all of life, I've never heard of a C-section where a scalpel goes too deep and actually slices into the baby's forehead. Or even touches the baby's forehead.

The medical malpractice system is totally out of control. Everybody in the system knows it. And it's not just of the outrageous judgments, it's not just the fact that some people get millions of dollars, others get nothing, and the one people who get rich are lawyered, it's just that it causes doctors to practice defensive medicine.

A great doctor kills more people than a great general.

Adrian, the Emperor, exclaimed incessantly, when dying, "That the crowd of physicians had killed him."

What I'm telling you is there's too many junk lawsuits suing too many doctors.

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.

I told my doctor, "I've swallowed a bottle of sleeping pills" and he told me to have a few drinks and get some rest.

A great operation on the wrong patient is just as bad as a horrible operation on the right patient. So, you have to have all that together.

Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away.

What a doctor I've got - he's really mixed up. Last week, he grabbed my knee and told me to cough. Then hit me in the balls with a hammer.

Somewhere in the world is a doctor who is worse than all other doctors...and someone has an appointment with him in the morning.

Doctors bury their mistakes, but mine are still on scholarship.

The Puerto Rican doctor, who wrote all his prescriptions with spray paint. Never got a dinner!

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

It would be a mistake, though, to consider care by family doctors or midwives inferior to that offered by obstetricians simply on the grounds that obstetricians need not refer care to a family physician or midwife if no complications develop during a course of labor.

There’s a piece of lead where my heart should beat Doctor said too dangerous to take out You’d better just leave it be Body grew back around it, a miracle, praise be Now, if only I could get through airport security “bullet