Joel Fuhrman Quotes

This is the reality of intensive care: at any point, we are as apt to harm as we are to heal.

In medicine, there is always a balance between risk and benefit.

You can die of the cure before you die of the illness.

Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.

Any doctor will admit that any drug can have side effects, and that writing a prescription involves weighing the potential benefits against the risks.

And while we are on the subject of medication you always need to look at risk versus benefit.

Computerized medical records will enable statistical analysis to be used to determine which treatments are most effective.

Could we have prevented in 100% certainty? I don't think anything is that certain. However, we would have had a very, very good chance for preventing it.

Listening to medical facts was not enough. People wanted one hundred percent guarantees.

We're hoping for the best, but we need to prepare for the worst.

Our great struggle in medicine these days is not just with ignorance and uncertainty. It's also with complexity: how much you have to make sure you have in your head and think about. There are a thousand ways things can go wrong.

School districts around the country, and the taxpayers that support them, have a moral right to the information the NFL might have concerning the medical aspects of the game, and to assess the risks to the students in their charge. Colleges have a moral right to that information for the same reasons.

With tens of thousands of patients dying every year from preventable medical errors, it is imperative that we embrace available technologies and drastically improve the way medical records are handled and processed.

I confidently affirm that the greater part of those who are supposed to have died of gout, have died of the medicine rather than the disease - a statement in which I am supported by observation.

We've had risk assessments performed by Harvard University, which said that even if we did have a small number of cases in this country that the likelihood of it spreading or getting into any kind of human health problem is very, very small.

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

The need to understand prescription information can literally be a matter of life and death.

Well, because lots of questions had been raised about the toxicity of the drug, which is very serious.

If you put me in charge of the medical research budget, I would cancel all primary research, I would cancel all new trials, for just one year, and I would spend the money exclusively on making sure that we make the best possible use of the clinical evidence that we already have.

I have had my genome fully sequenced and have learned a great deal about which medications I would respond to and which might or would induce major side effects, along with knowing many medical conditions for which I'm particularly susceptible.

In medical school, it's quite possible to get taught that you can diagnose everybody and treat everything. But then you get out in the real world and find that for most patients walking through your door, you have no idea what's causing their symptoms.

Every time you get a movie, you get a medical. So you know, you know you're alright for a couple of weeks.

Medical Device technology is truly interdisciplinary.

People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

Many medical students, like most American patients, confuse science and technology. They think that what it means to be a scientific doctor is to bring to bear the maximum amount of technology on any given patient. And this makes them dangerous.