Anthony Fauci Quotes

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

Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice.

Health IT helps save lives now lost due to preventable medical errors, from incorrect diagnoses and needless infections to drug mix-ups and surgical mishaps.

How can we keep people healthy, and if they get sick, how can we treat them right the first time?

The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.

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

Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.

The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.

Insurance companies want to make sure that you stay on your medicine.

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

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

We strive for error-free medicine in a world that is sometimes all too human.

Well, I would never do a study because I'm a practicing physician. I mean, all I do is treat people.

Healthcare providers will compete to offer the best record of patient safety at the lowest prices. Hospitals and patients will benefit from having accurate information about areas of excellence and areas that must be improved.

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

I'm ticking things off my list: I had a tumor removed; I had spinal surgery; I had four surgeries in three months.

Health care organizations don't ask us to interface to every type of module because they understand that it could cause safety problems.

I love the opportunity to help my patients, to work with them to find the best course of action to get them healthy and to give them the information they need to stay healthy.

When I testified before Congress after the Hudson River landing, Congressman James Oberstar of Minnesota said, 'Safety begins in the boardroom.' That's as true in medicine as it is in aviation. It always boils down to leadership.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

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

There is an enormous amount of options that a physician can provide today, right down from curing patients, treating patients, or providing patients with psychic solace or pain relief. So, in fact, the gamut of medical intervention is enormous.

As soon as a disease is diagnosed, we still need someone to deliver the care.

The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.