Jermaine Jackson Quotes

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

As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.

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

I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.

I welcome the President and working with him to try to get some of that medical malpractice reform so we can get the cost of health care to come down.

I treated as few patients as I could as a medical student, and I never practiced medicine.

Patient autonomy is paramount to the oath that we take when we enter the profession of medicine. That is why I am appalled when the federal government gets between my patients and their right to the full range of medical information and complete access to health care.

Medical liability reform is not a Republican or Democrat issue or even a doctor versus lawyer issue. It is a patient issue.

Reform of the medical liability system should be considered as part of a comprehensive response to surging medical malpractice premiums that endanger Americans' access to quality medical care.

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.

The politics have always been difficult in medicine. There is some truth in the way medical practice is portrayed in TV dramas.

When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.

Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients.

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

We are trained to be medical doctors first and if you have to put neurosurgery aside to deal with the most vulnerable and susceptible patients, then that's what we'll do.

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.

Every profession will have its rogues, of course, no matter what oaths are sworn, but many health care professionals have a real commitment to serving the best interests of their clients.

When I took the Hippocratic oath and was effectively 'sworn in' as a doctor, I took the same vow that doctors have taken for generations. Patient autonomy is core to this oath.

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

I'm a physician first and foremost. I will always be a physician.

I think the media can be a very positive influence by essentially holding people to task about the importance of high quality medical care. And when the media is scrutinizing you, then I think that's a very good, positive thing for the field of medicine.

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

When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays.

There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine.

Many medical students, like most American patients, confuse science and technology. They think that what it means to be a scientific doctor is to bring to bear the maximum amount of technology on any given patient. And this makes them dangerous.