Listening to medical facts was not enough. People wanted one hundred percent guarantees.
I think the biggest problem in clinical trials is that they are underpowered. And that fundamentally, the studies are just too small.
I'm involved in Project ALS which is trying to get money for stem cell research. That's one I've been pretty involved with because if you can cure that, you can cure so many other diseases.
This is the reality of intensive care: at any point, we are as apt to harm as we are to heal.
Managers of hospitals over the years have been increasingly recruited from outside the health service, and although their experience of running a supermarket chain might allow them to balance the books, it does not mean they have any insight into how a ward should be managed and patients best served.
We'll be investing in basic science research with the goal of curing disease.
If you put me in charge of the medical research budget, I would cancel all primary research, I would cancel all new trials, for just one year, and I would spend the money exclusively on making sure that we make the best possible use of the clinical evidence that we already have.
In general, certain conclusions are possible from these data. They fail to prove that psychotherapy, Freudian or otherwise, facilitates the recovery of neurotic patients.
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.
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.
It may seem a strange principal to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm.
My vantage point on the world is the operating room where I see my patients.
Healthcare providers will compete to offer the best record of patient safety at the lowest prices. Hospitals and patients will benefit from having accurate information about areas of excellence and areas that must be improved.
Research must be central to healthcare if healthcare is to improve.
We're giving consumers the tools they need to see medical professionals virtually, to Skype with the doctor instead of wait in her office, to self-monitor vital signs, to connect with health-related communities, and to choose physicians based on reliable data about outcomes and cost.
Healthcare is a conservative marketplace.
Because all the sick do not recover, therefore medicine is not an art.
Computerized medical records will enable statistical analysis to be used to determine which treatments are most effective.
Medical Device technology is truly interdisciplinary.
In medicine it is … necessary that causes both health and disease should be determined.
Doctors and patients need as much data as possible to make an informed decision about what treatment is best.
We must always remember that all medical interventions have risk, and very little can be asserted with 100 percent certainty.
We know from our clinical experience in the practice of medicine that in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment, the individual and his background of heredity are just as important, if not more so, as the disease itself.
If we practiced medicine like we practice education, we'd look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years.
You know, 97 percent of the time, if you come into a hospital, everything goes well. But three percent of the time, we have major complications.
