Doctors And Patients Quotes

• Mental illness is a real thing. It has real material consequences for people who suffer from it and at the time even the most biological finding reflects social context in very important ways, and so I think psychiatry is better off looking both at biology and at social context and really trying to think of the relationship between these and I think doctors and patients are better off that way.

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  Jonathan Michel Metzl

  Real   Thinking   Doctors  

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. January 29, 2010.

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• Doctors and patients need as much data as possible to make an informed decision about what treatment is best.

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  Ben Goldacre

  Doctors   Data   Decision  

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• Look at other countries that have tried to have federally controlled health care. They have poor-quality health care. Our health-care system is the envy of the world because we believe in making sure that the decisions are made by doctors and patients, not by officials in the nation's capital.

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  George W. Bush

  Country   Believe   Doctors  

  Third Presidential Debate at Arizona State University, Tempe, Ariz, www.washingtonpost.com. October 13, 2004.

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• I did a show called 'Wonderland' a few years back, and I was fortunate enough to spend a full-on two weeks - I'm talking 13-15 hours a day - with the doctors and patients at Bellevue in New York. That served me well for 'Durham County.

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  Michelle Forbes

  New York   Doctors   Talking  

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• Imagine a world in which medicine was oriented toward healing rather than disease, where doctors believed in the natural healing capacity of human beings and emphasized prevention above treatment. In such a world, doctors and patients would be partners working toward the same ends.

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  Andrew Weil

  Healing   Doctors   Medicine  

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• The key is to cut out the middleman and empower both doctor and patient with information about what things cost.

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  Benjamin Carson

  Cutting   Keys   Doctors  

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• What Republicans want to do is to put doctors and patients and patients' families back in charge of people's health care rather than having pencil pushers of the government or in some insurance office doing that job.

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  Jim Sensenbrenner

  Jobs   Doctors   Government  

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Let no one suppose that the words doctor and patient can disguise from the parties the fact that they are employer and employee.

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  George Bernard Shaw

  Party   Doctors   Facts  

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.411, e-artnow

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• In actual fact. The manifold sexualities - those which appear with the different ages (sexualities of the infant or the child), those which become fixated on particular tastes or practices (the sexuality of the invert, the gerontophile, the fetishist), those which, in a diffuse manner, invest relationships (the sexuality of doctor and patient, teacher and student, psychiatrist and mental patient), those which haunt spaces (the sexuality of the home, the school, the prison)- all form the correlate of exact procedures of power.

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  Michel Foucault

  Teacher   Children   School  

  Michel Foucault (2012). “The History of Sexuality: An Introduction”, p.47, Vintage

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