Quotes About Clinicians

#1. Louise Brown's birth marked the end of the beginning of human IVF, acclaimed at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. This event was snubbed by some clinicians now styled as 'pioneers', who shouted that the test-tube claim was a fake! They did not matter.

Robert Edwards

#2. We now live in the era of the super-specialist - of clinicians who have taken the time to practice at one narrow thing until they can do it better than anyone who hasn't.

Atul Gawande

#3. The greatest clinicians who I know seem to have a sixth sense for biases. They understand, almost instinctively, when prior bits of scattered knowledge apply to their patients - but, more important, when they don't apply to their patients.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#4. But it's not only the breadth and quantity of knowledge that has made medicine complicated. It is also the execution - the practical matter of what knowledge requires clinicians to do.

Atul Gawande

#5. As I've met clinicians in my travels, time after time I've been inspired to hear why people went into medicine: to apply their way-above-average minds (and hearts) to work that's beyond most people's capacity, and perhaps save a few lives.

Dave DeBronkart

#6. Too often, hospital staff are incented by management to get work done without worrying about care, and clinicians are too often not even trained to think about care.

Dave DeBronkart

#7. I think the extreme complexity of medicine has become more than an individual clinician can handle. But not more than teams of clinicians can handle.

Atul Gawande

#8. Clinicians have told me that our emotional is arrested at the age that an eating disorder takes control of our lives. After we recover, we pick up emotionally where we left off at that age.

Jenni Schaefer

#9. The baby boomer surge is forcing society to face decisions about costs - and particularly what is valuable. It's senseless for clinicians and governments to bear these choices alone; a sad effect of needless paternalism is that it places a false burden on responsible people.

Dave DeBronkart

#10. At the same time, it is obvious that clinicians in Haiti are faced with different, and, in fact, greater, challenges when attempting to treat complications of HIV disease.

Paul Farmer

#11. To have a group of cloistered clinicians away completely from the broad current of professional life would be bad for teacher and worse for student. The primary work of a professor of medicine in a medical school is in the wards, teaching his pupils how to deal with patients and their diseases.

William Osler

#12. Most mental health professionals, including clinicians and researchers, endorse the deficit theory. They're convinced that we wage war simply because we don't know how to make love. We desperately want loving, satisfying relationships but lack the skills we need to develop them.

David D. Burns

#13. the line between what clinicians can do well and what they cannot do at all well is not obvious, and certainly not obvious to them.

Daniel Kahneman

#14. Entrepreneurs and innovators across the country are developing and deploying new data-powered IT tools to help clinicians succeed at delivering better care at lower cost.

Todd Park

#15. A disease which new and obscure to you, Doctor, will be known only after death; and even then not without an autopsy will you examine it with exacting pains. But rare are those among the extremely busy clinicians who are willing or capable of doing this correctly.

Herman Boerhaave

#16. But now the problem we face is ineptitude, or maybe it's "eptitude" - making sure we apply the knowledge we have consistently and correctly. Just making the right treatment choice among the many options for a heart attack patient can be difficult, even for expert clinicians.

Atul Gawande

#17. While someday the computerization of medicine will surely be that long-awaited "disruptive innovation," today it's often just plain disruptive: of the doctor-patient relationship, of clinicians' professional interactions and work flow, and of the way we measure and try to improve things. I

Robert Wachter

#18. Some clinicians and researchers believe that andropause is primarily the result of our loss of testosterone. It is clear to me that it is much more than that. Andropause is a multidimensional change of life with hormonal, physical, psychological, interpersonal, social, sexual, and spiritual aspects.

Jed Diamond

#19. The great success stories of chemotherapy were always in relatively obscure types of cancer. Childhood leukemia constitutes less than two percent of all cancers and many of chemotherapy's other successes were in diseases so rare that many clinicians had never even seen a single case

Ralph W. Moss

#20. 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.

Jeremy Corbyn

#21. New York State like many other states, found it was much less expensive to provide services for brain injured people at home instead of a hospital or nursing home.

Amy Rankin

#22. Everything is habit with men, everything even in their social and political relations. Habit is the great motive-power.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#23. Everyone is more than one thing," said Kieran. "We are more than single actions we undertake, whether they be good or evil.

Cassandra Clare

#24. What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?

Erma Bombeck

#25. War is father of all, and king of all. He renders some gods, others men; he makes some slaves, others free.

Heraclitus

#26. Students present themselves ... like a succession of CDs whose shimmering surface gives no clue to their contents without the equipment to play them.

John Updike

#27. The camera has always been a guide, and it's allowed me to see things and focus on things that maybe an average person wouldn't even notice.

Don Chadwick

#28. Instead of announcing what you are about to tell is interesting, make it so.

William Strunk Jr.