#patients

Providing patients and consumers with solid information on the cost and quality of their healthcare options can literally make the difference between life or death; and play a decisive role in whether a family or employer can afford healthcare. ↗

— Timothy Murphy

#between #consumers #cost #death #decisive

Depression can seem worse than terminal cancer, because most cancer patients feel loved and they have hope and self-esteem. ↗

— David D. Burns

#cancer #depression #feel #hope #loved

I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

#assisting #death #i #include #into

It's like doctors can't save all their patients, but, on balance, Bain under Gov. Romney created well over 100,000 jobs, which is certainly more than has been created in the Obama administration because we're down over 500,000 over the last three-and-a-half years. ↗

— Jim Talent

#balance #because #been #certainly #created

The idea of infection began to be taken far more seriously than it ever had before. Hospitals transformed themselves in response to the new plague - sometimes for the better, but often for the worse, as when, in fear, they cast their ulcerated patients out into the streets. ↗

— Peter Lewis Allen

#began #better #cast #ever #far

Every year, nearly two-thirds of the approximately 200,000 patients in need of a bone marrow transplant will not find a marrow donor that matches within their families. ↗

— Nathan Deal

#bone #bone marrow #donor #every #families

In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year. ↗

— Jan Schakowsky

#centers #close #community #every #health

Man becomes weak or ill by accident as a consequence of the lack of resources. Even the most severally ill patients must be treated with the aim of restoring their health. ↗

— Michael Servetus

#aim #becomes #consequence #even #health

Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now vote but they can't get medical care or clean water. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#civil #clean #clean water #critical #destitute

Since I do not believe that there should be different recommendations for people living in the Bronx and people living in Manhattan, I am uncomfortable making different recommendations for my patients in Boston and in Haiti. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#be different #believe #boston #bronx #different