#patients

Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients. ↗

— Carl Levin

#cannot #damage #escape #even #hospitals

I'm not a psychiatrist. I'm not treating patients. ↗

— John Malkovich

#patients #psychiatrist #treating

Patients would come in and say, Well, my baby is going to have a cleft palate. I'm going like, that's not a reason. And the doctor would do the abortion. ↗

— Norma McCorvey

#baby #come #doctor #going #i

It was a mutual thing. I made a deal with them: I asked them if they did not bring out the place card of Malachi, I would let them have two minutes with each one of my patients. ↗

— Norma McCorvey

#bring #card #deal #did #each

One of the jewels in the crown of Labour's time in office was the rescue of the National Health Service. As the Commonwealth Fund, the London School of Economics and the Nuffield Foundation have all shown, health reforms as well as additional investment were essential to improved outcomes, especially for poorer patients. ↗

— David Miliband

#commonwealth #crown #economics #especially #essential

He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all. ↗

— William Osler

#does #go #medicine #patients #sails

It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients. ↗

— Ivan Pavlov

#avoid #confidence #desire #experimental #goes

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

Today, all patients accepted for treatment at St. Jude's are treated without regard for the family's ability to pay. Everything beyond what is covered by insurance is taken care of, and for those without insurance, all of the medical costs are absorbed by the hospital. ↗

— Marlo Thomas

#accepted #beyond #care #costs #covered

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