Patient Needs Quotes

Practicing medicine is not only my vocation, it gives me an opportunity to continue to be in direct contact with people, to see them and hear their needs.

For me, I think that there's a lot missing from the recovery or the post-diagnosis side of treating patients. Once the diagnosis is made, I feel that care drops off tremendously, even though it is precisely the time that a patient needs help the most, even if they are not verbalizing it.

The fact is, many poor patients visit ERs simply because they don't have a family doctor.

The Doctor's Motto: Have patients.

Patients know what patients want to know.

Now that doctors have stopped making house calls, lots of patients now have to die without their help.

I use the word nursing for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the administration of medicines and the application of poultices. It ought to signify the proper use of fresh air, light, warmth, cleanliness, quiet, and the proper selection and administration of diet-all at the least expense of vital power to the patient.

The craving for 'the return of the day', which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.

We need a significant amount of market stability, not for the insurance companies, but to ensure patients can get access to the care they want.

Nursing demands vigilance about people. The sights and smells that a patient offers, their movements and their offhand comments all contribute crucial information to understanding what they need. Training and experience heighten one's ability to see what needs to be seen.

I grew up with a lot of dinner table conversations about health care and ways in which the system was inadequate for the needs of many of the patients they took care of.

Every clinical encounter is an opportunity to generate social capital. Even in situations where patient needs are complex or seemingly insurmountable, it is the empathy and goodwill which makes the difference.

This is where the strength of the physician lies, be he a quack, a homeopath or an allopath. He supplies the perennial demand for comfort, the craving for sympathy that every human sufferer feels.

In hospital, people should be able to have time to themselves.

If we can validate our scientific bets in the clinic, if we can bring valuable new treatments to patients that need them, that will be our ultimate measure of success.

Medicare is immune from the competitive pressures that force private insurers to pay attention to what patients and doctors want.

One option is to run Medicaid like a health program - rather than an exercise in political morals - and let states tailor benefits to the individual needs of patients, even if that means abandoning the unworkable myth of 'comprehensive' coverage.

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

As a physician, I treated hundreds of patients who needed long-term care, including ones with Alzheimer's.

In health care, you really need a balance of people who need health care today, tomorrow, and in the future.

Emergency rooms are closed, many hospital wards are as well leaving people who are sick with heart disease, trauma, pregnancy complications, pneumonia, malaria and all the everyday health emergencies with nowhere to go.

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

As far as I'm concerned, the more power we push back to the patient, the individual, the American citizen, the more responsive the system is to her needs. 'Obamacare, is responsive' is like a hammer is responsive to a piece of glass.

It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is their need of light; that, after a close room, what hurts them most is a dark room and that it is not only light but direct sunlight they want.

Where patient needs are complex, we should provide greater support in the community so that patients can cut down on trips to the tertiary hospital.