Risa Lavizzo-Mourey Quotes

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

Nurses serve their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve as our first lines of communication when something goes wrong or when we are concerned about health.

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

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

If someone lives in New York, he's a New Yorker - they are entitled to the best medical system in the world.

I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.

Increasingly we know that we're going to have multiple medical conditions, and the person who's got the greatest incentive to manage those conditions is the patient him or herself.

Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.

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.

When I came to this country in 1958, to be a dying patient in a medical hospital was a nightmare. You were put in the last room, furthest away from the nurses' station. You were full of pain, but they wouldn't give you morphine. Nobody told you that you were full of cancer and that it was understandable that you had pain and needed medication.

I worked in the NHS as a hospital orderly during my national service, and people thought it was a noble service. But over the years it's lost its humanity.

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

The growing professional disciplines of medical ethics and bioethics have had a profound impact on researchers, bedside doctors, associations of physicians, and government.

I think I definitely got scared by the second or third time a doctor told me I was dying.

In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.

A hospital is a good place to set various dilemmas.

Even putting aside the Judeo-Christian morality upon which the Constitution and our nation's culture are based, the notion of forced euthanasia would contradict the long-held body of medical ethics to which all American doctors must adhere.

I believe we should support people to live, and I am therefore in favour of good quality palliative care.

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.

Health care has not so much slowed the ageing process as much as it has slowed the dying process.

I am proposing that every person over sixty-five years of age be spared the darkness of sickness without hope.

Nearly every American will encounter the need for long-term care.

The proposed Health Care Reform bill will put seniors in a position of being put to death by their government.

As a physician, I treated hundreds of patients who needed long-term care, including ones with Alzheimer's.

There is no limit to how much health you can provide people.