Atul Gawande Quotes

My advice to the Sultan is to build hospitals for sick Muslims, with a staff of physicians and attendants who will cure them and minister to their needs

I have seen the healthcare system from many angles, including as a patient.

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

Nothing is more valuable to people than health care, and by paying, they feel less like beggars and more like 'customers' who can and should demand quality care.

The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.

I like being on the side of healthcare consumer.

Some things I don't compromise on. Health care is one of them.

Health care's not about insurance! Health care's about getting treatment.

We can help a whole lot of people if we could figure out a way to expand Medicaid and get people the care that they need.

What Philips has to offer to India is to further enhance the state of healthcare for the over billion people in this country.

The sick man must follow his illness to the place where it is treated... He is set aside in one of the technical and secret zones (hospitals, prisons, refuse dumps) which relieve the living of everything that might hinder the chain of production and consumption, and which repair and select what can be sent back up to the surface of progress.

Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital... Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain.

Building a new Health and Hospitals Network is fundamental to building a stronger and fairer Australia.

The stronger ties between primary care providers and the patients they serve will produce better outcomes and allow for more sustainable healthcare spending.

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

Doctors no longer charge patients, patients no longer pay doctors, and neither determines what is medically necessary.

Socialized medicine ... forced its way into our political vocabulary.

The two most dangerous words in the English language are not "nuclear war." They are "socialized medicine.

What we need are more good doctors and fewer bad health plans.

It’s time to rethink the whole system of HMOs and managed care. This entire unnecessary level of corporatism rakes off profits and worsens the quality of care.

The new triad of medicine: a doctor, a patient and an accountant.

Do we need Medicare reform? Yes we do.

When you report on Wall Street and health-care reform... what could be more relevant to people's lives?

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

I don't want doctors and patients to be having to - having to literally ration care, take away that relationship by having the government come in and interfere.