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Doctors and patients need as much data as possible to make an informed decision about what treatment is best. -- Ben Goldacre
The key is to cut out the middleman and empower both doctor and patient with information about what things cost. -- Benjamin Carson
Let no one suppose that the words doctor and patient can disguise from the parties the fact that they are employer and employee. -- George Bernard Shaw
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. -- Andrew Weil
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. -- Michelle Forbes
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. -- George W. Bush
Medicines cure diseases, but only doctors can cure patients. -- Carl Jung
We can't socialize the doctors without socializing the patients. -- Ronald Reagan
Doctors put a wall up between themselves and their patients; nurses broke it down. -- Jodi Picoult
Doctors think a lot of patients are cured who have simply quit in disgust. -- Herbert Hoover
There is among doctors, in acute hospitals at least, a presumption of stupidity in their patients. -- Oliver Sacks
If doctors just spent more time with their patients so they felt more reassured, that might help. -- Irving Kirsch
Now that doctors have stopped making house calls, lots of patients now have to die without their help. -- Milton Berle
One of the shortcomings of our medical system is that doctors have very little time with their patients. -- Eula Biss
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Moist was sure doctors keep skeletons around to cow patients. Nyer, nyer, we know what you look underneath ... -- Terry Pratchett
Medicare is immune from the competitive pressures that force private insurers to pay attention to what patients and doctors want. -- Virginia Postrel
Patients who trust their doctors and have a psychological expectation of getting better could trigger a reaction in their body. -- Irving Kirsch
Compassionate doctors sometimes lie to patients about the severity of their condition, and it is not always wrong to do so. -- Richard Dawkins
So the effect of this Republican provision to allow doctors to be gagged from even discussing abortion with their patients is outrageous. -- Frank Lautenberg
An enormous mass of experience, both of homeopathic doctors and their patients, is invoked in favor of the efficacy of these remedies and doses. -- William James
Great hospitals do two things. They look after patients, and they teach young doctors. We look after clients, and we teach young advertising people. -- David Ogilvy
I truly feel the best doctors are ones who are criticized by nurses, patients and family. They do not make excuses and learn from their mistakes. -- Bernie Siegel
Doctors frequently get it wrong. One out of five patients today is in the hospital because incorrect treatment by a physician put him or her there. -- Andrew Saul
Doctors have throughout time made fortunes on killing their patients with their cures. The difference in psychiatry is that it is the death of the soul. -- R. D. Laing
Smartphones can relay patients' data to hospital computers in a continuous stream. Doctors can alter treatment regimens remotely, instead of making patients come in for a visit. -- Charles C. Mann
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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
If the history of medicine is told through the stories of doctors, it is because their contributions stand in place of the more substantive heroism of their patients. -- Siddhartha Mukherjee
The more fashionable doctors in Italy, began to delegate to slaves the manual attentions they deemed necessary for their patients ... that the art of medicine went to ruin. -- Andreas Vesalius
Residents of my district continue to stress to me that they want health care decisions to be made by patients and doctors, not by the government and insurance companies. -- Tim Walberg
I do believe that, in time, doctors - both alternative and orthodox - will begin using whatever is the highest best treatment for their patients, regardless of the modality. -- Brandon Bays
The system is broken. The doctors and the nurses can't do everything. The patients need human attention; the patients themselves need to be addressed, rather than just their disease. -- Colleen Saidman

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