Medical and Healthcare Quotes

"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."

"A typical medical practice is like an old-fashioned business which keeps all of its records on paper. It can probably track down any individual transaction if it needs to, but it's basically helpless when it comes to overall measurements of performance. And that's the big problem."

"We must always remember that all medical interventions have risk, and very little can be asserted with 100 percent certainty."

"Nutrition is an exciting, dynamic field - there are more than 10,000 articles published on human nutrition in medical journals every year."

"I have passed English medical examinations in Hong Kong... In my youth, I experienced overseas studies. The languages of the West, its literature, its political science, its customs, its mathematics, its geography, its physics and chemistry - all these I have had the chance to study."

"Prior to my call to the Twelve, I served as a medical doctor and surgeon."

"Reimbursement is a major determinant of how medicine is practiced. When reimbursement changes, so do medical practice and medical education."

"While health reform is a worthy goal, we shouldn't pay for it by taxing those who already have high medical costs because they or someone in their family has a disability."

"To ensure that America remains the leader in medical innovation, we must reduce the costs of developing life-saving drugs and ensure that there are appropriate economic incentives in place to produce them."

"With the right policies and regulations, the opportunities for American medical advancement and scientific innovation are boundless."

"I like the values associated with a medical family - common sense, being practical but also thoughtful."

"In order for America to remain the leader in medical innovation, we must reduce costs, ease regulatory burdens, and increase the efficacy of producing new treatments and cures here in the U.S."

"While global research is crucial, the U.S. must maintain its leadership role as the world's innovator for both medical advancement and job creation."

"Henrietta Lacks' cells are immortal. They are known as the HeLa cell line, and they have become deeply involved in all sorts of medical and genetic research - sometimes in the most unexpected ways."

"The more powerful a technology greater care should be used to benefit fro it. India should not be left behind the world. From the past revolution of nuclear technology we saw how it could destruct and at the same time were useful for medical science."