Doctors And Patients Quotes by Ben Goldacre, Benjamin Carson, George Bernard Shaw, Andrew Weil, George W. Bush, Michelle Forbes and many others.
Doctors and patients need as much data as possible to make an informed decision about what treatment is best.
The key is to cut out the middleman and empower both doctor and patient with information about what things cost.
Let no one suppose that the words doctor and patient can disguise from the parties the fact that they are employer and employee.
Imagine a world in which medicine was oriented toward healing rather than disease, where doctors believed in the natural healing capacity of human beings and emphasized prevention above treatment. In such a world, doctors and patients would be partners working toward the same ends.
Look at other countries that have tried to have federally controlled health care. They have poor-quality health care. Our health-care system is the envy of the world because we believe in making sure that the decisions are made by doctors and patients, not by officials in the nation’s capital.
I did a show called ‘Wonderland’ a few years back, and I was fortunate enough to spend a full-on two weeks – I’m talking 13-15 hours a day – with the doctors and patients at Bellevue in New York. That served me well for ‘Durham County.
What Republicans want to do is to put doctors and patients and patients’ families back in charge of people’s health care rather than having pencil pushers of the government or in some insurance office doing that job.
