Patient-centered Quotes

The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.

In the first speech I delivered as health secretary, I made one thing perfectly clear: we need a cultural shift in the NHS: from a culture responsive mainly to orders from the top down to one responsive to patients, in which patient safety is put first.

Lets take away the incentives to do 'to' patients and instead create incentives to do 'for' patients, to be 'with' patients. We don't need to do comparative effectiveness trials to see if that works; we can just ask patients.

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.

We're going take a common-sense, step-by-step approach that puts in place the kind of policies that will make our- our health insurance system more what I call patient-centered and lower cost.

Ultimately, health care fails the most basic test. It's not organized around the needs of the patient.

We're talking of passing the legislation that repeals and replaces Obamacare with a patient-centered system that brings down prices and expands choices, so people have more - better access to more affordable healthcare choices and options, but that takes time to put into place.

How do we crate a quality health care system that is universal?

I believe that a different therapy must be constructed for each patient because each has a unique story.

The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it

We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms.

When you're dealing with a sick person, you're not important at all. You're just a nobody.