Tom Brokaw Quotes

My job as a physician is to make sure I have provided my patients with the best options to make the decisions that affect their lives.

Being prepared helps you feel more confident at the doctor's office. Think about what you want to ask and write those questions down.

Doctors and patients need as much data as possible to make an informed decision about what treatment is best.

I'm a regular at a hospital in Pennsylvania. The Riddle Hospital in Media, Pennsylvania.

I've learnt some important lessons: I never rely on the opinion of one doctor alone. I do my own research; I read up and am ready with questions I need answered.

I'm a terrible patient, and I find that doctors can be very condescending.

How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.

I know there will be X amount of women being diagnosed. I love to say, You can get through it. You can.

I always think, medically... you really have to be your advocate. You have to be able to back up everything that you're feeling with some information and protect yourself through the world of hospitals and doctors' offices, so the more information the better.

I was on the board of the Mayo Clinic. I was diagnosed there, and I could pick up the phone and get a hold of whoever I wanted to. What I learned is that you really have to get proactive and manage your case.

People say that the most expensive piece of medical equipment is the doctor's pen. It's not that we make all the money. It's that we order all the money.

Not really in all honesty because until you take control of your own health and go to your own doctor and have your own doctor tell you what's going to work for you.

You can be diagnosed and treated early. And there is hope for the future.

Republicans have come up to me to say, 'Hey listen. My knee hurts. What do you think I should do?' I'll give them my recommendations.

I really like my doctors. Some of them I love. I trust them.

As a doctor, I understand how actions can affect lives.

Once you reach a certain age, you find yourself visiting hospitals a lot.

The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman.

I have a whole slew of doctors. I can count eight in my phone right now - eight different doctors, all for different parts of my body. I have specialists.

Most patients enter a doctor's office or hospital as if it were a Mayan temple, representing an ancient and mysterious culture with no language in common with the visitor.

If you don't have a doctor that inspires you, no matter what you have, you should find one that does. Because I feel like my doctor helped me stay alive.

America's doctors, nurses and medical researchers are the best in the world, but our health care system is broken.

It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.

We all want more information available when making health care decisions for ourselves and our families.

You can't make assumptions when you're dealing with health issues.