Medical Malpractice Quotes

I was raped by a doctor. Which is, you know, so bittersweet for a Jewish girl.

Actually lowering the cost of insurance would be accomplished by such things as making it harder for lawyers to win frivolous lawsuits against insurance companies.

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

Doctors bury their mistakes, but mine are still on scholarship.

Operating-room errors hold a special terror for patients, if only because they seem like the most avoidable kind of complications. The occasional horror stories of patients who have the wrong leg removed or the wrong knee replaced generate the most headlines, as do tales of patients whose identities are mixed up entirely.

Nowhere is inhumanity more revealed than in hospitals.

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.

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.

Our health care system is the finest in the world, but we still have too many uninsured Americans, too high prices for prescription drugs, and too many frivolous lawsuits driving our physicians out of state or out of business.

If the AMA [American Medical Association] is against you, you must be doing something right.

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

The laws are still very unclear. Cells are still taken from people without consent - a lot of people don't realize it.

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."

My doctor is wonderful. Once, in 1955, when I couldn't afford an operation, he touched up the X-rays.

The medical profession (is) a conspiracy to hide its own shortcomings. No doubt the same may be said of all professions. They are all conspiracies against the laity... (U)ntil there is a practicable alternative to blind trust in the doctor, the truth about the doctor is so terrible that we dare not face it.

I've had at least a couple botched surgeries.

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

Who shall decide when doctors disagree?

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

I've been victimized by general filthiness on multiple occasions... I received a nasty staph infection... I was told to wait it out... a few days later I literally thought I was going to die... I ended up being on antibiotics for five weeks and, as a result, I had to back out of the fight against Machida.

This warning from the New York City Department of Health Fraud: Be suspicious of any doctor who tries to take your temperature with his finger.

Many years ago doctors would bleed sick patients with leeches. Today, the insurance companies do that.

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

I feel like Dr. Death.

English doctors have killed 3/4 of my friends & the joke is the remaining 1/4 go on recommending them, so odd is human nature.