Medical Necessity Quotes

When you're asked to have a CT scan or a nuclear scan, do you know how much radiation that involves? How many of those sorts of scans have you already had? Is it necessary? Is there an alternative? I don't think many people know about that.

In thirty-five years of medicine I have never seen one case where abortion was necessary to save a mother's life.

I think first and foremost everybody should understand that Canadians are strongly committed to the system of universal health insurance, to the principle that your ability to pay does not determine your access to critical medical service.

Though fancy may be the patient's complaint, necessity is often the doctor's.

When in organism there are cancer cells, they have to be removed, not helped because they're "so young" and "so creative".

No one should have to choose between taking lifesaving medicine and paying for food.

I knew I needed surgery and I didn't want to have it and I ended up having it.

Reasoning based on cost has been strenuously resisted; it violated the Hippocratic Oath, was associated with rationing, and derided as putting a price on life... Indeed, many physicians were willing to lie to get patients what they needed from insurance companies that were trying to hold down costs.

If you don't have dialysis, absolutely, you will die. Dialysis is actually keeping me alive.

I encourage everyone I know to sign an organ donor card, but if someone doesn't want to sign, that's his or her choice. If someone isn't willing to give an organ, however, why should that person be allowed to receive an organ?

Doctors no longer charge patients, patients no longer pay doctors, and neither determines what is medically necessary.

If you could still run and play, there's no reason to go see a doctor, right?

I am not pro-abortion any more than I am pro-appendectomy.

I believe the time has come to acknowledge that the practice of routine circumcision rests on the absurd premise that the only mammal in creation born in the condition that requires immediate surgical correction is the human male.

We've got to let the people know that there is a necessity, it's not even an option, it's a necessity to have a chiropractor. As much as it is a necessity to have a dentist, if you have a dentist for the family, you should have your chiropractor for the family.

You can't have my heart, the doctor told me I'd be dead without it.

There will always be issues where an abortion is necessary.

I really have aproblem with the fact that insurance companies don't see infertility as a medical condition requiring coverage. I do want there to be some pressure on the insurance companies.

There is a great difference between a good physician and a bad one; yet very little between a good one and none at all.

And the other was this: the doctor did want to take off my leg because he thought it was necessary. But you must remember boys in those days were raised for two things: work, and then they made their play; and if you couldn't play baseball and box and play football, why, your life was ended. That was in our boyish minds.

Medical decisions ought to be made by medical doctors—not insurance companies.

It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity.

I operated on too many people who could have avoided surgery if they'd simply made healthier choices earlier in life.

Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease?

I agree with cosmetic surgery for medical reasons - my mother had breast cancer and I think it's very sad when somebody has no choice in what happens to their body.