Abraham Verghese Quotes

I think, in picking a doctor, you should focus less on the degree and more on their knowledge, bedside manner, communication, and patients' experiences.

When I opened my solo practice, I made it a priority to put my patients' experience first and foremost. This involves making them feel comfortable, both literally and figuratively.

I'm a terrible patient, and I find that doctors can be very condescending.

Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.

I think people are by-and-large happy with the providers that they have got now. They treasure that doctor-patient relationship.

I really like my doctors. Some of them I love. I trust them.

We have a lot of great hospitals in America, across the country.

Those that have received care here in Des Moines at the VA center or the VA hospital here have said that they do receive good care. However, it's getting into the system - the wait periods. We have to do something about that. The care here has been good. We're not seeing that in other states.

My father was a doctor.

People need medicine and they need therapists.

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.

One of the shortcomings of our medical system is that doctors have very little time with their patients.

A hospital ought to be a house of healing, not a monument to paperwork and bureaucracy.

I am convinced that inside two or three years both the doctors who provide the service and the people who receive the survice will be so completely satisfied with it that no government would dare to take it way.

Doctors can do almost anything nowadays, can't they, unless they kill you while they're trying to cure you.

I like being on the side of healthcare consumer.

We sometimes think that the best doctors are the ones who have the most specialized knowledge or the fanciest degrees, but in fact, study upon study, including one published in the 'New England Journal of Medicine,' show that the best doctors are the ones who also know how to connect with their patients.

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

Medical attention is medical attention, whether it's for your elbow or for your teeth or for your brain. And it's important.

No parent would fail to call the doctor if their child developed a fever.

When I hear my friend John Boehner say that we have the best health care in the world, I don't dispute it for a moment. If I were sick, this is the country I want to be in, with these doctors, these hospitals, and these medical professionals.

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

Medicine is so big and so important.

How can we keep people healthy, and if they get sick, how can we treat them right the first time?

Doctors are very popular with women.