#doctors

The most exquisite pleasure in the practice of medicine comes from nudging a layman in the direction of terror, then bringing him back to safety again. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#medicine #medicine

Pay-for-procedure or fee-for-service reimbursement rewards doctors and hospitals for volume - not keeping patients healthy or being efficiency. Pay-for-Performance is clearly one tool that can change the incentives to reward quality. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#change #clearly #doctors #efficiency #healthy

The doctors have given me a green light. They have said that my heart is significantly more efficient today than it was four months ago. And I am anxious to be the next president of the United States. ↗

— Bob Graham

#am #anxious #doctors #efficient #four

When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,' and so forth, I switch off quite early. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#cancer #climbing #doctors #early #elbow

My mother had a fear of doctors - other than her daughter marrying one. ↗

— Shelley Berkley

#doctors #fear #had #her #marrying

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#answer #doctors #even #generals #lives

I think people feel threatened by homosexuality. The problem isn't about gay people, the problem is about the attitude towards gay people. People think that all gays are Hannibal Lecters. But gay people are sons and daughters, politicians and doctors, American heroes and daughters of American heroes. ↗

— Hollis Stacy

#american #attitude #daughters #doctors #feel

There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips. ↗

— Earl Campbell

#doctors #go #grips #hate #medication

Oh there are lots of doctors and medical professionals out there who buy my devices at whole sale price. ↗

— Alex Chiu

#devices #doctors #lots #medical #oh

Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings, and people only became lawyers and doctors and brokers and things because they couldn't make abstract paintings. ↗

— Frank Stella

#became #because #believed #brokers #doctors