119 Quotes About Health-care

If your child comes home with a stable staff of nurses that remains stable for years without interruption, you might be a family of unicorns

Smokers live faster.

We treat healthcare as a commodity and not a right, which has led to poor social responsibility and fiscal irresponsibility, very far away from its roots as a social service.

Not all of the countries do what’s considered socialized medicine; instead, many have private doctors and hospitals as a part of the equation. Let me repeat that—single-payer healthcare does not automatically mean socialized medicine.

Our current privatized and fragmented commodity-based healthcare system costs more than public healthcare for other countries around the world. I must repeat this; we are already paying for the cost of Universal Health Care and then some.

Never congratulate a doctor for the fast recovery of a patient.

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

Modern allopathic medicine is the only major science stuck in the pre-Einstein era.

The pressures of the current neoliberal capitalist system of health care and its financing force health professionals into a double bind. Either they spend the time and energy necessary to listen to and fully treat the patient and put their job and clinic in economic jeopardy, or they move at a frenetic pace to keep their practice afloat and only partially attend to the patient in their presence.