#patients

With tens of thousands of patients dying every year from preventable medical errors, it is imperative that we embrace available technologies and drastically improve the way medical records are handled and processed. ↗

— Jon Porter

#drastically #dying #embrace #errors #every

Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure. ↗

— Xavier Becerra

#deterioration #disease #end #end result #experience

Researches tested a new form of medical marijuana that treats pain but doesn't get the user high, prompting patients who need medical marijuana to declare, "Thank you?" ↗

— Jimmy Fallon

#form #get #high #medical #need

Today we have a health insurance industry where the first and foremost goal is to maximize profits for shareholders and CEOs, not to cover patients who have fallen ill or to compensate doctors and hospitals for their services. It is an industry that is increasingly concentrated and where Americans are paying more to receive less. ↗

— Dianne Feinstein

#compensate #concentrated #cover #doctors #fallen

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

In the past, men created witches: now they create mental patients. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#created #in the past #men #mental #now

Many of us are alarmed at the skyrocketing cost of medical care, including patients, who are the consumers. However, medical malpractice is not the reason for these increasing costs. ↗

— Joe Baca

#care #consumers #cost #costs #however

Part of my training was learning how to refer patients to cardiologists for heart problems, gastroenterologists for stomach issues, and rheumatologists for joint pain. Given that most physicians were trained this way, it's no wonder that the average Medicare patient has six doctors and is on five different medications. ↗

— Mark Hyman

#different #doctors #five #given #heart