Of course, the medical profession doesn't like D.I.Y. anything.
Michael, if he wants an operation on his nose, plastic surgery, hey, he can do it. It's his right.
I'm my own doctor. I have a group of people who call me up on a weekly basis. I'm a 'doctor' without a license.
We are not going back. We are not returning to the days of back-room abortions, when countless women died or were maimed. The decision about abortion must remain a decision for the woman, her family and a physician to make, not the government.
Reproductive rights are about body and medical autonomy: our collective and deeply personal right to choose what we want to do to/with our bodies. Trans people and feminists should be building natural alliances here.
Residents of my district continue to stress to me that they want health care decisions to be made by patients and doctors, not by the government and insurance companies.
No single person, including the President of the United States, should ever be given the power to make a medical decision for potentially millions of Americans. Freedom over one's physical person is the most basic freedom of all, and people in a free society should be sovereign over their own bodies. When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we in essence accept that the state owns our bodies.
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.
Michelle and I don't want anyone telling us who our family's doctor should be - and no one should decide that for you either. Under our proposals, if you like your doctor, you keep your doctor. If you like your current insurance, you keep that insurance. Period, end of story.
Why should ethical decisions as personal as those involved in reproduction and medical care be decided by democratic vote?
Have your own doctor, who answers to you. If you don't, when the time comes that you get mixed up with hospitals, they'll treat you like a fool. ... You're bound to lose your health at some point, but you don't have to lose your dignity, too.
People and organizations other than doctors increasingly are assuming power to decide which medications to prescribe or procedures to undertake. More and more, decisions about personal healthcare are no longer made by the treating physicians in consultation with their patients, and based on the doctors' expertise.
The government doesn't want you to use YOUR drugs, they want you to use THEIR drugs.
The patient decides when it's best to go.
I would like to maximize the level of human choice in the medical field...The choice of a treatment in many ways is like the exercise of religion.
Medical decisions ought to be made by medical doctors—not insurance companies.
When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we, in essence, accept that the state owns our bodies.
Americans have the right to have their medical decisions made by them and their doctors, and not by those bureaucrats sitting behind a computer screen hundreds of miles away.
Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?
I don't necessarily want my physician making all my decisions.
I'm opposed to Blue Cross telling me how to practice medicine. Or anybody else.
In a free society men and women should not be prevented by Government from seeking medical remedies which they believe will be effective.
Do we really want Washington administrators coming between us and our doctors?
Health care should be the choice of the consumer, not the choice of the employer.
I always think, medically... you really have to be your advocate. You have to be able to back up everything that you're feeling with some information and protect yourself through the world of hospitals and doctors' offices, so the more information the better.
