Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

Doctors have an ethical duty to follow the practices and standards of care.

Whether it's possible or not, being a doctor, you take an oath. To care for your patient, not to kill them. You take an oath to do things that are proper in the medical world. Not to administer something outside of a hospital setting that's not even your area.

When it comes to my health, I would rather my doctor base her decisions on science rather than what she, or some lawyer, thinks will stand up in court.

I don't trust doctors. It's not to say there ain't some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn't trust 'em at all.

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

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

I think that the general public understands that its own doctors are human, fallible, and flawed.

I think people need to be comfortable questioning the authority of a doctor.

If I'm at the front line and refuse to treat a patient, it's considered a crime. As a physician, this is my oath. I'm going to treat everyone regardless.

But I think doctors have always been either honest or dishonest.

I think we are faced in medicine with the reality that we have to be willing to talk about our failures and think hard about them, even despite the malpractice system. I mean, there are things that we can do to make that system better.

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

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

Good physicians are rarely dispassionate. They agonize and self-doubt over patients.

Ethically, I think pretty much every code of ethics for doctors suggests that they should not be in an interrogation room, particularly if there's anything coercive or abusive going on.

If you're a doctor, what do you promise to do? First, do no harm. If your operating philosophy is do no harm, that's not a call to imagination. Not only that, if I'm a patient, I don't want your imagination. I want what works.

We must always make sure that our doctors work for their patients and not for the government

There is a pervasive lack of accountability in medicine that extends from the most newly qualified doctor right through the most senior professors.

The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes depend on them.

Nurse: "Doctor, the man you just gave a clean bill of health to dropped dead right as he was leaving the office". Doctor: "Turn him around, make it look like he was walking in."

There is alas no law against incompetency; no striking example is made. They learn by our bodily jeopardy and make experiments until the death of the patients, and the doctor is the only person not punished for murder.

My brief stay at the hospital had already convinced me that the medical profession was an open door to anyone nursing a grudge against the human race.

Malpractice tort reform can be something as commonsensical as the establishment of medical courts - similar to bankruptcy or admiralty courts - with special judges to make determinations in cases brought by parties claiming injury.

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

Performing unconsented surgeries is considered battery because the patient can't voice their opinion - they're unconscious.