Medical Outcomes Quotes

PubMed Central is vital for researchers and the public alike. Only through free access can everyone find out where the cutting edge of research lies. With access to the latest studies, patients and their families have a much-needed piece of the puzzle as they consider treatment options and potential outcomes.

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

The best doctors and medicine in the world can't save you if you don't do what you're supposed to do.

Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.

The American healthcare system is the worst form of healthcare other than all the other systems that have been tried.

People get sick and sometimes they get better and sometimes they don't. And it doesn't matter if the sickness is cancer or if it's depression. Sometimes the drugs work and sometimes they don't. Sometimes the drugs work for a while and then they stop. Sometimes the alternative stuff works and sometimes it doesn't. And sometimes you wonder if no outside interference makes any difference at all; if an illness is like a storm, if it simply has to run its course and, at the end of it, depending on how robust you are, you will be alive. Or you will be dead.

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.

A lot of medical problems are solved if doctors are nice to patients. If you can make them think positive, you may not need medication.

Some persons will tell you, with an air of the miraculous, that they recovered although they were given over; whereas they might with more reason have said, they recovered because they were given over.

We can learn something from every single medical interaction. Every case, every patient has a lesson to teach us.

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.

In medicine you go from dying to chronically ill. You don't go from dying to better than you ever knew you could be. That just doesn't happen.

The US health-care system is a complete scandal. It's got twice the costs of comparable countries and some of the worst outcomes.

Nearly every business collects metrics on inventory, sales, and workplace process. Health care has been slow to measure these kinds of outcomes. Increasingly, general medicine, via either managed care or large practice settings, is improving by collecting data through electronic records and refining practice based on what works.

Our strategy is focused on driving better outcomes for patients and higher productivity for hospitals.