George Bernard Shaw Quotes

My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor for making money off of cancer?

The vast majority of doctors really do try to take the money out of their minds. But to provide the best possible care requires using resources in a way that keeps you viable but improves the quality of care.

Without question, the notion of the doctor as a legitimate fee-for-service entrepreneur, making his fortune from misfortunes of his patients, is old-fashioned, distasteful, and doomed.

The Doctor's Motto: Have patients.

I'm happier writing about doctors than I would have been being one.

Physicians mend or end us, Secundum artem; but although we sneer - In health - when ill we call them to attend us, Without the least propensity to jeer

As a doctor, I've learned the importance and value of listening.

Physicians today, as human beings, are not exempt from the perverse economic pressures created by fee-for-service regimes to see more patients for shorter appointments and order more tests and procedures. If the incentives were changed to pay to foster better health outcomes, I am convinced physician behavior would change over time.

I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.

I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.

Medicine also disregards national boundaries.

The politics have always been difficult in medicine. There is some truth in the way medical practice is portrayed in TV dramas.

Giving good medical care to people who need it is not a good way to make a profit. Insurance companies make their money by creaming the market.

When we speak of reducing health care costs, remember that for many powerful interests, that translates into “taking away my business.”

This is the dark side of pharmaceutical practices in enlisting and paying professionals [phjysicians] to pitch their profit-making drug.

People are being incentivized for the wrong things. We've heard about a lot - doctors for procedures rather than creating wellness or maintaining wellness.

Reimbursement is a major determinant of how medicine is practiced. When reimbursement changes, so do medical practice and medical education.

I'm opposed to Blue Cross telling me how to practice medicine. Or anybody else.

We have a system that's really founded on profit and on selling pharmaceuticals as opposed to keeping people healthy and then helping them get back to health.

The vast majority of the world knows there's no reason to circumcise. Someone should tell the doctors.

It angers me that sick people have to wait for everything and everybody - doctors, nurses, callbacks, lab results, prescriptions, medications, technicians, treatment rooms. If illness is the embodiment of powerlessness, which, believe me, is true, then waiting is its temporal incarnation.

I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.

Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously, as an imperative to do everything for the patient regardless of the cost or effects on others

Let no one suppose that the words doctor and patient can disguise from the parties the fact that they are employer and employee.