If the AMA [American Medical Association] is against you, you must be doing something right.
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.
Otis Brawley is one of America's truly outstanding physician scientists. In How We Do Harm, he challenges all of us-- physicians, patients, and communities-- to recommit ourselves to the pledge to 'do no harm.'
I think people need to be comfortable questioning the authority of a doctor.
Heal yourselves, doctors; by God I live.
When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.
It costs you just as much to ask a doctor 50 questions as it does to ask him one question. So go see your doctor with questions written down... And if he doesn't want to answer your 50 questions, go find yourself another doctor!
You could be a corrupt doctor, but at least you have to go to the medical school first. Right?
Doctors are human; they make mistakes, and you have to stay on top of them. You have to ask the second question, the third question, the follow-up to the fourth question.
With 'Cardiac Arrest,' I wanted to show that there were times when doctors really didn't care.
I don't trust doctors. It's not to say there ain't some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn't trust 'em at all.
But I think doctors have always been either honest or dishonest.
We must always make sure that our doctors work for their patients and not for the government
