Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. J. Johnson

We've always been told that there's nothing we can do. We're told that the patients are the ones who need to complain.

Charlie Norwood

What we're really trying to do is level out the health care system. It has gotten so one-sided as more and more people have been put into managed care; in fact, about 70 percent of the patients in the country.

Mark Levin

What this does is provide plausibility that we should be reinvestigating ascorbic acid in cancer treatment. It's not ready for patients. Patients shouldn't get the wrong idea. We don't want to provide false hope.

We would urge patients to think twice and consider the risks and implications before going abroad for treatment.

We found that patients with Alzheimer's disease had lower levels of physical activity earlier in life,

We found that patients who stopped their antidepressant during pregnancy were five times more likely to have a return of depressive symptoms than those patients who had decided to continue (them) during pregnancy.

We found that over half of patients visiting emergency departments were there for less-urgent or non-urgent conditions, things like chronic back pain or a sore throat. Whereas at the other extreme, less than one per cent who visited emergency rooms were most severely ill - people with diagnoses of shock or major trauma.

We found no consensus among physicians about what is customary or appropriate. Despite efforts to standardize many aspects of the doctor-patient relationship, patients are likely to encounter very different approaches.

We felt it was important for patients to understand how care is delivered, who delivers the care.

We believe this will end up saving patients money.

Unfortunately, less than five percent of people diagnosed with cancer will be treated through enrollment in a clinical trial. Our organization is very supportive of the Coalition and its efforts to accelerate research. We believe that in recent years patients have received better treatment options in trials, and if we can educate people about clinical trials I am confident that we can increase enrollment in these high-priority colon cancer trials.

We want them to completely change the way they handle organs. We want stricter testing and we want families and patients to be notified if there is a problem with a donor, so that the family could make the decision, not the doctor.

The outbreak is under control and the influx of patients to hospitals has come down. Fogging of insecticide in affected areas has started. People have been advised to sleep under mosquito nets.

Anne Bishop

The potential of stem cells has been widely known for many years, but it is only recently we have started to make progress towards the ultimate goal of using them in patients. These results show it may be as little as five years before this advance can be used to directly benefit patients for a huge variety of illnesses and injuries.

The point is that when they talk about quality of health care, patients mean something entirely different than experts do. They're not talking about numbers or outcomes but about their own human experience, which is a combination of cost, paperwork and what I'll call the hassle factor, the impersonal nature of the care.

We are pretty clear that egg freezing is a pretty experimental technology and should only be offered to patients in that context. We think there might be a rush to offer this service before it's completely reliable.

We've already seen two patients from South Dakota in the past two weeks. We were stunned.

Michael Lerner

There are definite benefits for cancer patients among the ethical complementary cancer therapies,

We tend not to use the biggest resource in healthcare - the patients themselves. So I'm trying to figure out possible uses for digital technologies like Facebook but also real-life social networks to improve healthcare provision.

Louise Fletcher

Life had stopped for her a long time ago. She was so out of touch with her feelings that she had no joy in her life and no concept of the fact that she could be wrong. She delivered her care of her insane patients in a killing manner, but she was convinced she was right.

Until today, patients with diabetes who need insulin to manage their disease has only one way to treat their condition.

Until today, patients with diabetes who need insulin to manage their disease had only one way to treat their condition. It is our hope that the availability of inhaled insulin will offer patients more options to better control their blood sugars.

Alex Tabarrok

When the FDA forces an old drug off the market, patients have very little say in the matter. Patients have even less of a say when the FDA chooses not to approve a new drug. Instead, we are supposed to rely on the FDA's judgment and be grateful. But can the FDA really make a choice that is appropriate for everyone? Of course not.

We're seeing about 25 to 35 of our patients having to seek transplantation somewhere else, be it UPMC or some other place outside the city.

Kris Carr

Life is a terminal condition. Were all going to die. Cancer patients just have more information, but we all, in some ways, wait for permission to live.

Lynda Resnick

Epilepsy is a disease in the shadows. Patients are often reluctant to admit their condition - even to close family, friends or co-workers - because there's still a great deal of stigma and mystery surrounding the disease that plagued such historical figures as Julius Caesar, Edgar Allan Poe and Lewis Carroll.

We were delighted to find that patients who get the current state-of-the-art treatment with platelet blockers, medical treatment and stents during procedures had a significant improvement in their outcome.

We are all concerned about quality care and what's best for our patients. Now we are part of the decision-making process and that's going to make a difference for our patients and our communities.

There exists a gap between what patients expect with regard to end of life care and what actually happens,

Nina Conti

I'm training to become a giggle doctor. It's a kind of hospital clown who changes the atmosphere on the ward and helps recovery. It's about making patients laugh but also much more.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Lithium remains the gold standard, but many drugs now treat bipolar disorder. Medication is critical and should be combined with psychotherapy. Compliance is a major problem. Patients believe that once they're better, they no longer need the medication. It doesn't work that way.

Throughout my career, as both a physician and a scientist, I have drawn inspiration from Merck's unwavering commitment to scientific excellence. Over time, this commitment has brought forth an unparalleled number of breakthrough medicines and vaccines that improve the lives of patients around the world.

Very few doctors are willing to care for CFS patients because it is such a downer.