Susannah Cahalan Quotes

The new triad of medicine: a doctor, a patient and an accountant.

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.

Not a single Mainer should be rationing their medication or avoiding a trip to the doctor because they aren't sure what it will end up costing.

The thing I get pulled over for in Kroger is the cost of health care and the cost of prescription drugs.

Always thank your nurse. Sometimes they're the only one between you and a hearse.

The nurses, I have already learned, are the ones who give us the answers we’re desperate for. Unlike the doctors, who fidget like they need to be somewhere else, the nurses patiently answer us as if we are the first set of parents to ever have this kind of meeting with them, instead of the thousandth.

Doctors no longer charge patients, patients no longer pay doctors, and neither determines what is medically necessary.

My advice to the Sultan is to build hospitals for sick Muslims, with a staff of physicians and attendants who will cure them and minister to their needs

In general, people are administered drugs too readily.

The hospital industry to this day works its tail off to do the right thing.

When I'm working, I stay in ICU in any hospital that will get me a bed.

I don't want doctors and patients to be having to - having to literally ration care, take away that relationship by having the government come in and interfere.

We need a significant amount of market stability, not for the insurance companies, but to ensure patients can get access to the care they want.

What Americans want is more affordable health care.

Health care's not about insurance! Health care's about getting treatment.

I think we didn't recognize how hard it would be to care for someone with Ebola who was desperately ill in the U.S., and how much hands-on nursing care there would be, and we didn't expect two nurses to get infected.

Obviously, nobody likes to read or hear about anyone having a bad experience in our hospitals.

One of the problems fundamental to health care in the United States is access and cost.

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

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

Cancer treatment is very expensive, and the process is painful and long. This is something that we have to collectively think about, on how to make it affordable.

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

Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey.

We've created a multitrillion-dollar edifice for dispensing the medical equivalent of lottery tickets - and have only the rudiments of a system to prepare patients for the near certainty that those tickets will not win. Hope is not a plan, but hope is our plan.

God cures and the doctor sends the bill.