Healthcare Quotes

“People struggle to see it's not about whether she's going to die - palliative care isn't just a place you go to slowly slip away. More people live and leave than die on our wards. It is about being comfortable for the duration of something necessary and painful. Making bad times easier.”
― Beth O'Leary, The Flatshare

“The world doesn't need more smart doctors, it needs more warm and wise doctors. Be the wisdom yourself - be the warmth yourself, and be the doctor that the doctors have forgotten to be, for it is time to save medicine, to save humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Time to Save Medicine

“It is unfortunate that the modern healthcare system has devolved into a mass production line of sickened people attending very short appointments with overworked doctors that are delivering substandard care that is influenced by drug companies.”
― Steven Magee

“Dear Stress, I would like a divorce. Please understand it is not you, it is me.
–Thomas E. Rojo Aubrey”
― Thomas E. Rojo Aubrey, Unlocking the Code to Human Resiliency

“The most important thing that I learned from a decade of using the medical profession is that you need to supervise your doctors.”
― Steven Magee

“Life is healthy, but lifestyle makes it unhealthy.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“The first step to treat a mental illness is acceptance.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Most people can afford healthcare and education in the age group when both these things are not relevant.”
― D. S. Pandit, Wisdom Quotes and Life Lessons

“What a pity that we are being eaten up by the very food that we eat.”
― Amar Chandel

“The UK needs a post Brexit US trade deal like a hole in the head. Given America's out-of-control opioid crisis, fuelled by prescription drug addiction, along with an obesity epidemic like the world has never seen, why on earth would the UK want to open its doors to US healthcare companies ? So that they can wreak untold havoc and destroy our National Health Service ? No thanks !”
― Alex Morritt, Lines & Lenses

“our system rewards activity and not helpfulness”
― Andrew Yang

“Health care is a tale of being upstream or being downstream. If you’re downstream, you’re at the end of the river pulling people out of the current right before they hit the rapids. You can save a good number of people that way. But if you’re upstream, you stop them from falling into the river in the first place and you save a good deal more.”
― Michael J Dowling

“The medical profession may make you sicker and kill you prematurely if you let them.”
― Steven Magee

“Your sickness is far too profitable for you to be returned to good health.”
― Steven Magee

“If you are going to be diagnosed with a disease, it is preferable to be diagnosed with one that is treatable.”
― Steven Magee

“The internet is far more knowledgeable than any doctor.”
― Steven Magee

“Life Insurance - it's better to be 5 years too early, than 5 minutes too late.”
― online Reference

“You do not need to be able to diagnose a patient's condition right at sight unless you are in the OR, but you must be able to genuinely recognize and realize the worry and weakness in the patient's mind right from the very beginning. Remember, you will never be a first-class doctor until you learn to have some regard for human frailty.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Time to Save Medicine

“Not every sickness is psychosomatic, but a weak psyche can indeed make a sickness worse.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Time to Save Medicine

“For a patient to be fully treated by a doctor, the patient must be willing to put all psychological guards down and be vulnerable. And this can only happen if the patient can trust the doctor, and this trust can only be induced through the release of oxytocin, which can only be triggered in the patient's brain by the will of a doctor with a genuine act of kindness on the doctor's part.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Time to Save Medicine

“Most so-called doctors may boastfully proclaim to you that you must be concerned about making a lot of money in the practice of medicine, but keep in mind, that's precisely what practice of medicine is not about. So, reply to them with utmost realization of the purpose of medicine, "if you want to make a lot of money, then you should better go into business, not in medicine.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Time to Save Medicine

“A healthy body may or may not lead to a healthy soul, but a sick soul most certainly brings along sickness in the body.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Time to Save Medicine

“The doctor asks the patient some form of the following: “So, what is wrong?” (or, in my case, my doc always asks “So, what are your concerns?”). The doctor listens for an average of 9 seconds, then intervenes with a prognosis. The amount of time the doctor is willing to listen before intervening has gone down over time, presumably as health insurers have pressured doctors to increase throughput and as they have greatly increased the amount of paperwork required of doctors. In other words, it is in the name of efficiency. The efficiency fairies are at work in the doctor’s office to eliminate all that wasteful time spent in creating a doctor-patient relationship.”
― L. Randall Wray

“An innovative spirit, long a core characteristic of American medicine, is as strong or perhaps even stronger as ever.”
― Michael J Dowling

“I have every expectation that self diagnosis by the internet and medical books will decimate the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries.”
― Steven Magee

“I have every expectation that naturopathic doctors that recommend supplements will take over from expensive conventional healthcare that relies on costly pharmaceutical prescriptions.”
― Steven Magee

“Runaway costs are crushing the American medical system. Hispanics are the group least likely to have medical insurance, with 30.7 percent uninsured. Ten point eight percent of whites and 19.1 percent of blacks are without insurance.
Illegal immigrants rarely have insurance, but hospitals cannot turn them away. In 1985, Congress passed the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, which requires hospitals to treat all emergency patients, without regard to legal status or ability to pay. Anyone who can stagger within 250 yards of a hospital—a distance established through litigation—is entitled to “emergency care,” which is defined so broadly that hospital emergency rooms have become free clinics. Emergency-room care is the most expensive kind.
Childbirth is an emergency, and hospitals must keep mother and child until both can be discharged. If the mother is indigent the hospital pays for treatment, even if there are expensive complications. Any child born in the United States is considered a US citizen, so thousands of indigent illegal immigrants make a point of having “anchor babies” at public expense. The new American qualifies for all forms of welfare, and at age 21 can sponsor his parents for American citizenship. In 2006 in California, an estimated 100,000 illegal immigrant mothers had babies at public expense, and accounted for about one in five births. The costs were estimated at $400 million per year, and in the state as a whole, half of all Medi-Cal (state welfare) births were to illegal immigrant mothers.
In 2003, 70 percent of the babies born in San Joaquin General Hospital in Stockton were anchor babies.
In Los Angeles and other cities with heavy gang activity, hospitals must deal with “dump and run” patients—criminals wounded in shootouts who are rolled out of speeding cars by fellow gang members. Illegal-immigrant patients often show up without papers of any kind, and doctors have no idea whom they are treating.
Mexican hospitals routinely turn away uninsured Mexicans, and if the US border is not far, may tell the ambulance driver to head for the nearest American hospital. “It’s a phenomenon we noticed some time ago, one that has expanded very rapidly,” said a federal law enforcement officer.”
― Jared Taylor, White Identity: Racial Consciousness in the 21st Century

“Hospitals cannot continue to hemorrhage. For the country as a whole, medical insurance premiums include a surcharge that pays for treating the uninsured. However, if the proportion of uninsured indigent patients exceeds a certain figure, a hospital has no choice but to close. In California alone, the heavy cost of free medicine for foreigners forced no fewer than 60 hospitals to shut down between 1993 and 2003; many others were on the verge of collapse. From 1994 to 2004, the number of hospital emergency rooms in the country as a whole dropped by more than 12 percent.
In May 2010, Miami’s health care system was so strapped, it was considering closing two of its five public hospitals. This would mean laying off 4,487 employees and the loss of 581 acute-care beds. Experts explained that treating uninsured patients had stretched the system to the breaking point.
Houston is a good example of a city whose hospitals are barely making ends meet. In the nation as a whole, about 15 percent of the population has no medical insurance, but Texas, with its large population of Hispanics, has the highest percentage at 24 percent. In Houston, the figure is 30 percent. The safety net cannot accommodate so many people who cannot pay. “Does this mean rationing?” asks Kenenth Mattox, chief of staff at Ben Taub General Hospital. “You bet it does.”
There is such a crush at Houston’s emergency rooms that ambulances often wait for one or two hours before they can even unload patients. The record wait is six hours. Twenty percent of the time, hospitals end up sending patients to other hospitals, and some have died after being diverted. Politicians and businessmen pull strings so friends can cut in line.
Americans who fall sick in Mexico do not get free treatment. The State Department warns that Mexican doctors routinely refuse to treat foreign patients unless paid in advance, and that they often charge Americans for services not rendered.”
― Jared Taylor, White Identity: Racial Consciousness in the 21st Century

“USA healthcare is a really expensive version of the free UK National Health Service (NHS) that provides a comparable level of service to all UK citizens.”
― Steven Magee

“The biggest mistake that I made in life was working for biologically toxic employers. The second biggest mistake was expecting that the modern healthcare system could fix my occupational diseases.”
― Steven Magee