Lois Capps Quotes

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.

Once I started working with older people, I realized how much I enjoyed the intellectual challenge of taking care of patients who have multiple, complex medical problems.

I love the opportunity to help my patients, to work with them to find the best course of action to get them healthy and to give them the information they need to stay healthy.

Each and every day health centers provide high-quality primary and preventive care to our constituents.

Community health centers do a great deal with limited resources. They provide critical medical care services to many who would otherwise have no other place to go or would end up in an emergency room.

Health is already a dominant sector in most societies and the one most guaranteed to grow.

The best way to reduce the cost of medical care is to reduce the illness.

I know that nurses are not only the largest healthcare profession but are responsible for the delivery of most healthcare, and are often in the best place to be able to see the whole pathway of care.

Health care does not worry me a great deal. I've been impressed by some wonderful old people.

My job as a physician is to make sure I have provided my patients with the best options to make the decisions that affect their lives.

The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.

In the future, it's going to become more and more impossible for the economy to support how expensive medical care is and the number of sick people we have. Why don't we just get our population healthier so we don't need medical care?

In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

I am sure that I have been much more useful to society as a medical physicist.

Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world.

We have common enemies today. It's called childhood poverty. It's called cancer. It's called AIDS. It's called Parkinson's. It's called Muscular Dystrophy.

Americans of all ages deserve quality end-of-life medical care.

The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed.

When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you've always got a different ache or pain.

My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health.

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.

Health is more than the absence of disease…It is also education….We have a health illiterate society.

Teaching people to eat doesn't make a lot of money. Nevertheless, most of us go into medicine because of a genuine desire to help people and optimize their health.

As soon as a disease is diagnosed, we still need someone to deliver the care.

In a majority of hospitals, in a majority of places, it is the nurses that are on the frontlines. They're the ones working every moment with the patients to ensure that they do well.