Medical Resources Quotes

In the United States, I feel like polio doesn't exist, but it very much does. I've been to many countries and saw how lucky we are that we can go straight to the doctor or the ER in the U.S. I would love for moms in other countries to not experience my fears.

I understand what it's like to go to hospitals and there's no medicine, and the best thing you have to give the patients is compassion.

In the future we may have to ration health care, but we're not there now.

Providing health care is like building a house. The task requires experts, expensive equipment and materials, and a huge amount of coordination.

If you go to a big city anywhere in the world and you need a doctor, just ask me. I can tell you who's good and who's bad. I've even considered writing a guidebook.

We ration health care now. We just don’t ration very rationally.

If someone lives in New York, he's a New Yorker - they are entitled to the best medical system in the world.

The “right to death" can easily become a threat to the life of patients whose treatment is hampered by lack of funds.

Many children with cancer in the developing world can be cured. But without appropriate treatment, few survive.

Now this is a way to approach our healthcare problems: increase the number of tax collectors and decrease the number of doctors - brilliant!

Be an advocate for your loved ones in the hospital. Ask tough questions of your local hospital and health system about preparedness for the likeliest emergencies, and express your views on how medical resources should be allocated in case they ever fall short.

When I first came out about my breast cancer, I didn't want to talk about it, but I had to, because young women were getting it, and people weren't understanding that.

Today the biggest problem in caring for those with AIDS is no longer mainly a medical or scientific problem. The crisis is access to affordable drugs.

Women are being told to get midwives [in UK] because there's not enough room and there's not enough pain medicine at the hospitals.

The Browns have unbelievable medical resources. I'm always seeking the best help and advice possible. I'll continue to do that even when my career is over.

My own son has a congenital heart condition, where his life was saved by a cardiac surgeon stepping in at 11 days of life to save his life. But he is now 21 years old because of constant monitoring and working with him with a primary care physician. that's the only reason now that he's getting to live a long and healthy life. That's what we're not rewarding. They don't have the kind of resources and commitment that we are giving to people like me. I have millions of dollars of equipment available to me when I go to work every day in an operating room.

There was no child oncology in Uzbekistan and in Russia you don't have a chance because there are already so many on the waiting lists.

We need to provide all areas of the country with access to high-quality medical care.

Do I think that the ACA is going to force rationing upon the American people? Yes.

Every penny paid to a PFI company is money withdrawn from those waiting for an operation, money removed from the training of clinicians, and money denied for life-saving treatments.

There are enough doctors on the planet so that nobody has to die for lack of attendance.

We hope that by sharing my experience - our experience, Lennon and I - that somebody who is going through this process or helping their loved one through it might feel less alone, and might even have some better information for their cancer care.

Biomedical research is only as good as its delivery. Distribution of medicines by charities is no more than a stopgap.

Navigating the healthcare system for children with special health needs can be daunting for families.

I know a lot of people in Washington would say, well, you know, indigent people can't manage their health savings account. They're too stupid. But they're not too stupid. Somebody has a diabetic foot ulcer, they learn very quickly not to go the emergency room where it costs five times more to take care of it. They go to the clinic.