Michael Crichton Quotes

The safest thing to do was get rid of the second breast. I just want to give myself the best chance possible to live.

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

I believe you need scientific proof that something works before you entrust your health to it.

Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.

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

We must always remember that all medical interventions have risk, and very little can be asserted with 100 percent certainty.

if I’d been hit with the same thing as Glenn, I probably had his doctor. The thought seemed about right when Glenn shrank back in his chair with a guilty expression. The tomato, too, was in hiding somewhere. I didn’t want to know where. I truly didn’t.

Victims make excuses. Leaders deliver results.

There is nothing wrong with underlining personal agency, but there is something unfair about using personal responsibility as a basis for assigning blame while simultaneously denying those who are being blamed the opportunity to exert agency in their lives

Start with the notion that yours is the sole responsibility unless there's powerful evidence to the contrary

Accept the consequences of your actions in order to become the agent of your mental, physical, spiritual and material success.

The nature of freedom of choice is that some people will misuse their responsibility and hurt themselves in the process. We should do our best to educate them, but without diminishing choice for everyone else.

The police can't stop an intruder, mugger, or stalker from hurting you. They can pursue him only after he has hurt or killed you. Protecting yourself from harm is your responsibility, and you are far less likely to be hurt in a neighborhood of gun-owners than in one of disarmed citizens - even if you don't own a gun yourself.

There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and thus free ourselves from the responsibility for acts which are prompted by our own questionable inclinations and impulses.

It is important to me that everybody who has been hurt know that the sorrow I feel is genuine. First and most important, my family, my friends, my staff, my cabinet, Monica Lewinsky and her family and the American people. I have asked all for their forgiveness.

You must be born for your physician, otherwise you are bound to perish because of your physician.

Most people assume that physician language is akin to technical, non-understandable jargon. It does not have to be that way. Doctors do not perform witchcraft. They simply interpret what they are told and what tests reveal. They diagnose and prescribe treatment. Our responsibility is to help doctors know what is going on in our bodies and to insist on clear, precise, understandable language in response.

I take responsibility only for the future, not the past. The past can't hurt you the way the future can.

Most people don't have the advantage of being able to evaluate their doctor in advance.

At the end of the day, your health is your responsibility.

We women make choices for others, not for ourselves, and when we are mothers, we...bear what we must for our children. You will protect them. It will hurt you; it will hurt them. Your job is to hide that your heart is breaking and do what they need you to do.

The disease of men is that they neglect their own fields and go to weed the fields of others.

What could be more unjust than hurting an animal or a child? When you've been gifted dominion over something, that responsibility is real.

Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility.

When we begin to set boundaries with people we love, a really hard thing happens: they hurt. They may feel a hole where you used to plug up their aloneness, their disorganization, or their financial irresponsibility. Whatever it is, they will feel a loss. If you love them, this will be difficult for you to watch. But, when you are dealing with someone who is hurting, remember that your boundaries are both necessary for you and helpful for them. If you have been enabling them to be irresponsible, your limit setting may nudge them toward responsibility.