Donald Berwick Quotes

#1. In America the scale of medical embezzlement is extraordinary. According to Donald Berwick, the ex-boss of Medicare and Medicaid (the public health schemes for the old and poor), America lost between $82 billion and $272 billion in 2011 to medical fraud and abuse.

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#2. A belief imposes limitations, an understanding invites possibilities, and experience initiates transformation.
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Todd Anthonsen

#3. The Holy Grail of universal coverage in the United States may remain out of reach unless, through rational collective action overriding some individual self-interest, we can reduce per capita costs.

Donald Berwick

#4. The decision is not whether or not we will ration care. The decision will be whether we ration care with our eyes open.

Donald Berwick

#5. Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent healthcare is by definition re-distributional.

Donald Berwick

#6. I am romantic about the NHS. I love it.

Donald Berwick

#7. Federalism should be a meeting point of all groups.

Khil Raj Regmi

#8. I am worried about the potential effect of casinos on communities.

Donald Berwick

#9. It is, I guess, politically correct, widely believed, that to say that American health care is the best in the world. It's not.

Donald Berwick

#10. At the last census it indicated that about 22 per cent of Australians were born overseas.

Julie Bishop

#11. As a practicing neurologist, I place central importance in applying current science to the notion of disease prevention.

David Perlmutter

#12. Right now, we are doing it blindly.

Donald Berwick

#13. We must accept human error as inevitable - and design around that fact.

Donald Berwick

#14. If life was what you made of it, then it could not be made for you.

Ferdinand Mount

#15. We have really good data that show when you take patients and you really inform them about their choices, patients make more frugal choices. They pick more efficient choices than the health care system does.

Donald Berwick

#16. We are guests in our patients' lives.

Donald Berwick

#17. Competition makes things come out right. Well, what does that mean in health care? More hospitals so they compete with each other. More doctors compete with each other. More pharmaceutical companies. We set up war. Wait a minute, let's talk about the patient. The patient doesn't need a war.

Donald Berwick

#18. The terror of it was in the randomness. The brutality and the senseless way they chose their victims, while leaving so many witnesses to spread the fear. No one was safe. No one was ever safe.

Marissa Meyer

#19. I think health care is more about love than about most other things. If there isn't at the core of this two human beings who have agreed to be in a relationship where one is trying to help relieve the suffering of another, which is love, you can't get to the right answer here.

Donald Berwick

#20. Humans are fragile. Bats are tough and almost impossible to get rid of. Ask any exterminator

Richard Myerscough

#21. Some is not a number. Soon is not a time.

Donald Berwick

#22. I have two grandchildren. I want to hand them a planet and community that is really thriving.

Donald Berwick

#23. Traditional medical ethics, based on the doctor-patient relationship must be changed ... The primary function of health care regulations should be to limit an individuals own decision-making!

Donald Berwick

#24. As a doctor, an educator, an innovator and someone who has dedicated his professional career to making things work better and to helping people - I am ready to lead.

Donald Berwick

#25. I had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, great actor. It was a joy to get to know him as a person.

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