On average, physicians interrupt patients within eighteen seconds of when they begin telling their story.
Strokes are preventable and treatable. Prompt treatment of patients experiencing stroke saves lives and reduces disability.
We can't socialize the doctors without socializing the patients.
What doctor does not need platform heels and dark black eyeliner to treat their patients?
My father was a doctor. He was just a great guy, a gentle humanist, and an old-fashioned GP. He'd get up at three in the morning to see patients in different areas if they needed him.
To have a group of cloistered clinicians away completely from the broad current of professional life would be bad for teacher and worse for student. The primary work of a professor of medicine in a medical school is in the wards, teaching his pupils how to deal with patients and their diseases.
I continue to do my job as a brain surgeon, as a researcher, and I try to make it better and better every day, not only for my patients but for their families, for my family and for the future generations of our country.
It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients.
If you think you can just go out and ask all the doctors in the world about what the did to all the patients and you think we can connect that into something useful, go talk to someone who has done that because we can't.
Now that doctors have stopped making house calls, lots of patients now have to die without their help.
I know what's it's like to grow up with ADHD and how important it is for parents, caregivers and patients, to have access to accurate information.
Patients are almost always preceded by their parents, because no matter how fast an ambulance can drive, terrified parents can drive faster.
Without question, the notion of the doctor as a legitimate fee-for-service entrepreneur, making his fortune from misfortunes of his patients, is old-fashioned, distasteful, and doomed.
When we, doctors, ask patients what their priorities are if time is short, what we do is we use what is available to us - whether it's geriatric care or palliative care or hospice care - to make sure they're living the kind of life that they want to live.
Patients should have rest, food, fresh air, and exercise - the quadrangle of health.
Older patients who live alone can become depressed.
And I have always told the patients when I talk to them. When they come around and say, "What will you have to drink? Oh that's right you don't drink. " Just speak up and say, 'Of course I drink. But I just don't drink alcohol. '
Patients have the right to help themselves.
Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.
The two things are synergistic, the health care crisis and the food crisis. Right now, to a large extent, the food industry's biggest product is patients for the health care industry and we have to break that.