#patients

I have seen doctors, in good faith, leave patients on steroids for years, thinking they are doing right. A friend of mine was on steroids for so long, she has severe osteoporosis. ↗

— Mary Ann Mobley

#doing #faith #friend #good #good faith

It's important right now to continue to have your patients contact their senators and their congresspeople to say we have a problem. We want you to help solve it, we want you to be involved. ↗

— Charlie Norwood

#continue #help #important #involved #now

The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians. ↗

— Ramakrishna

#away #class #feel #go #go away

Black patients were treated much later in their disease process. They were often not given the same kind of pain management that white patients would have gotten and they died more often of diseases. ↗

— Rebecca Skloot

#died #disease #diseases #given #gotten

But I like it when my patients are impressed not knowing that I was an Olympian. ↗

— Debi Thomas

#impressed #knowing #like #not knowing #olympian

A trip to the cancer unit of any pediatric hospital will tell you that the Law of Attraction doesn't work. Some angels are so bright, brave and valiant that God gave them the hardest lives when they chose to come to earth. They don't need to pray to be saved because they already are. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#cancer #cancer-patients #children #circumstances #faith

Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine. ↗

— Bernard Berenson

#cerebral #intestine #mind #minds #occupied

There are no bona fide treatments available for embryonic stem cells. There is nothing in the laboratory, and there is certainly nothing in the clinics available to patients. ↗

— Michael Burgess

#bona #bona fide #cells #certainly #clinics

Pay-for-procedure or fee-for-service reimbursement rewards doctors and hospitals for volume - not keeping patients healthy or being efficiency. Pay-for-Performance is clearly one tool that can change the incentives to reward quality. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#change #clearly #doctors #efficiency #healthy

As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation. ↗

— Patricia Hewitt

#any #better #care #consumers #generation