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Penn State University is also nationally recognized for the exceptional research and patient care provided at the College of Medicine, located in my Congressional District in Hershey, PA. -- Tim Holden
Not only are the studies themselves often lacking even face value, but they also drain badly needed funds away from patient care needs. -- Neal Barnard
I spent my 20s working in patient care at a large university hospital, an experience that has informed all my work and has given me a lot of human observation to draw on. -- Lois McMaster Bujold
When people affected by epilepsy are reluctant to expose their condition, the public remains in the dark about it - a tragic irony that has made patient care and raising funds for research more than challenging. -- Lynda Resnick
Under reverent, patient care, the wild seed gradually relinquishes its protective husk and entrusts its reproductive life to human hands.(thus) this sacred law and covenant with Mother Earth; Respectful care brings abundance. If you take, you must give back-Return the gift. -- Marilou Awiakta
The patient is in intensive care but still alive. -- Javier Perez de Cuellar
The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician. -- Abraham Verghese
Ultimately, health care fails the most basic test. It's not organized around the needs of the patient. -- Michael Porter
As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation. -- Patricia Hewitt
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
The stronger ties between primary care providers and the patients they serve will produce better outcomes and allow for more sustainable healthcare spending. -- Tony Tan
To understand a difficult topic like Iraq takes patience and care. Unfortunately, you rarely hear a patient, careful or thoughtful discussion of intelligence these days. -- George Tenet
Thanks to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, preventive care services, including contraception, will be covered by private insurance plans without co-pays or deductibles. -- Sandra Fluke
By offering individuals ownership and control of their health care coverage, we return control to the patients; and that is exactly where it should be. -- Chris Chocola
Once I started working with older people, I realized how much I enjoyed the intellectual challenge of taking care of patients who have multiple, complex medical problems. -- Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
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Caring for an Alzheimer's patient is a situation that can utterly consume the lives and well-being of the people giving care, just as the disorder consumes its victims. -- Leeza Gibbons
The Patients' Bill of Rights is necessary to guarantee that health care will be available for those who are paying for insurance. It's a part of the overall health care picture. -- Debbie Stabenow
We have really good data that show when you take patients and you really inform them about their choices, patients make more frugal choices. They pick more efficient choices than the health care system does. -- Donald Berwick
I'm an e-patient: equipped, enabled, empowered, engaged. I'm no clinician, but I do everything in my power to help them, to play an active role in my own care, and even in the design of care. -- Dave deBronkart
The CARE bill is an important piece of patient-care legislation. It will improve the quality of radiologic procedures performed throughout the United States as well as assist in reducing the cost incurred by the Federal government for these procedures. -- Charles W. Pickering
Having been an oncologist and having cared for scores, if not hundreds, of dying patients, when you don't have a treatment that can shrink the tumor and the patient will die, it's a very difficult conversation. It's emotionally draining. -- Ezekiel Emanuel
Value in medicine depends on information - as I said in 'Let Patients Help,' 'People perform better when they're informed better.' It follows that to make patients and families more effective in care, they need to know more. -- Dave deBronkart
The 2 million people who work in the NHS and social care are also themselves patients and users. I know they all want to treat patients and users the way they and their families would want to be treated and that is the purpose of our reforms. -- Patricia Hewitt
Supported by digital data, new data-driven tools, and payment policies that reward improving the quality and value of care, doctors, hospitals, patients, and entrepreneurs across the nation are demonstrating that smarter, better, more accessible, and more proactive care is the best way to improve quality and control health care costs. -- Todd Park
The most underutilized resource in all of health care is the patient. -- Dave deBronkart
In order to have good health care you need a patient and you need a health care provider. -- Benjamin Carson
If the modern world were a patient in my care... I would diagnose it suicidal." - Dr. Sofia Lamb -- John Shirley
It's too bad patient-centered care is not rocket science, because if it was, we would be really good at it. -- Laura Gilpin
In my view, the lost art of listening and ignoring the patient as a human being is a quintessential failure of our health care. -- Bernard Lown
Writing about my illness put me into places. It was very triggering. I had to completely remove myself and practice self-care. I learned to be patient. -- Jenny Lawson
Traditional medical ethics, based on the doctor-patient relationship must be changed... The primary function of health care regulations should be to limit an individuals own decision-making! -- Donald Berwick
If a 6 foot tall talking Badger comes to your door with a great deal on health insurance, be certain to ask if it includes in-patient psychiatric care. -- David C. Holley

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