Tina Brown Quotes

If people understood that doctors weren't divine, perhaps the odor of malpractice might diminish.

The high price of health care in this country is a serious issue that demands serious attention. Putting limits on damages have little or no effect on skyrocketing malpractice insurance rates.

Doctors are human; they make mistakes, and you have to stay on top of them. You have to ask the second question, the third question, the follow-up to the fourth question.

As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.

Medical liability reform is not a Republican or Democrat issue or even a doctor versus lawyer issue. It is a patient issue.

Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.

Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.

Our health care system is the finest in the world, but we still have too many uninsured Americans, too high prices for prescription drugs, and too many frivolous lawsuits driving our physicians out of state or out of business.

What you see is when the government gets involved, you run out of money and health care gets rationed.

Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients.

I believe in health care reform. I believe that HMS’s should be sued.

Medical decisions ought to be made by medical doctors—not insurance companies.

The blunders of a doctor are felt not by himself but by others.

With 'Cardiac Arrest,' I wanted to show that there were times when doctors really didn't care.

It's not health care reform to dump more money into Medicaid.

Health care is a service that we all need, but just like food and shelter, it is best provided through voluntary and mutually beneficial market exchanges.

We can have the best health insurance options in the world, and people still won't get needed care if we don't increase our supply of primary care physicians and nurses.

As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.

However, many skilled medical volunteers are turned away because community health centers cannot afford to cover their additional medical liability insurance.

I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.

Health care is much the same - the status quo is, by all measures, failing far too many people - and we must not shrink from the challenge.

I think the British people are very, very attached to the idea that the health service is free at the point of use. But there is no reason why every doctor, nurse and teacher in this country has to be employed by the state.

What I am saying is, all health care has a problem with costs. Medicare is growing slower than the private insurance plans. Why? Because of their efficiency. They don't have to give money to shareholders. Why should be defending shareholders?

For the amount of money that the country is going to spend this year on health care, you can go out and hire a doctor for every seven families in the US and pay the doctor almost $230,000 a year to cover them.

No doctor should ever have to call an insurance man to ask permission to treat a patient who is standing right there.