Ben Carson Quotes

Doctors can do almost anything nowadays, can't they, unless they kill you while they're trying to cure you.

This is the reality of intensive care: at any point, we are as apt to harm as we are to heal.

I think we are faced in medicine with the reality that we have to be willing to talk about our failures and think hard about them, even despite the malpractice system. I mean, there are things that we can do to make that system better.

I confidently affirm that the greater part of those who are supposed to have died of gout, have died of the medicine rather than the disease - a statement in which I am supported by observation.

Committing unnecessary surgeries is very, very rare. And it's very wrong.

You want to challenge experts, because experts get a lot wrong. Doctors misdiagnose one time in five. In the U.S. and Canada, 50,000 people die every year who would not have had to.

Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients.

The blunders of a doctor are felt not by himself but by others.

I've had at least a couple botched surgeries.

Doctors are just people and they can make mistakes.

English doctors have killed 3/4 of my friends & the joke is the remaining 1/4 go on recommending them, so odd is human nature.

Nurse: "Doctor, the man you just gave a clean bill of health to dropped dead right as he was leaving the office". Doctor: "Turn him around, make it look like he was walking in."

There is alas no law against incompetency; no striking example is made. They learn by our bodily jeopardy and make experiments until the death of the patients, and the doctor is the only person not punished for murder.

I'm sure that the liability for doing a tracheotomy would be tremendous. You make one mistake, and it's over. Most doctors won't even do it.

If you're a doctor, what do you promise to do? First, do no harm. If your operating philosophy is do no harm, that's not a call to imagination. Not only that, if I'm a patient, I don't want your imagination. I want what works.

When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.

When patients are admitted to hospital for elective surgery or non-urgent conditions, their vital signs are only monitored every four hours, unless they have been identified as being at high risk of deterioration.

The medical malpractice system is simply broken; … it comes too late, … it costs so much

There is a pervasive lack of accountability in medicine that extends from the most newly qualified doctor right through the most senior professors.

I would trust citizen journalism as much as I would trust citizen surgery.

When it comes to my health, I would rather my doctor base her decisions on science rather than what she, or some lawyer, thinks will stand up in court.

If you play a doctor on TV, you probably shouldn't try performing surgery.

In medicine, all over the world, there are always going to be mistakes made.

A resident's surgical skill is judged by their technique and speed. You can't be sloppy, and you can't be slow.

With 'Cardiac Arrest,' I wanted to show that there were times when doctors really didn't care.