Quotes About Primary Care

#1. We have Dragon [dictation software]," one primary care doctor said, "which you have to be careful of, because I just [dictated] 'Patient's prostate is bothering him' and it turned out 'Patient's prostitute is bothering him.

Robert Wachter

#2. In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year.

Jan Schakowsky

#3. Primary care must never be seen simply as a set of organisational structures.

John Hutton

#4. Emergency rooms will be used the way they were intended to be used: not for primary care, but for when the average freaky American get some strange object up his ass.

Bill Maher

#5. The stronger ties between primary care providers and the patients they serve will produce better outcomes and allow for more sustainable healthcare spending.

Tony Tan

#6. There's an opportunity for the pharmacist to play a much greater role in health care, especially with what we have going on in this country with the shortage of primary-care physicians.

Gregory Wasson

#7. We can have the best health insurance options in the world, and people still won't get needed care if we don't increase our supply of primary care physicians and nurses.

Jeff Merkley

#8. Putting aside competitive interests for a new kind of collaboration, Maryland pioneered a real-time encounter notification service to alert primary care doctors when their patients are hospitalized.

Martin O'Malley

#9. She sometimes felt less like a primary-care pediatrician and more like a battlefield surgeon, patching up her patients and sending them back to war.

Paul Tough

#10. I might have been just as happy to have been a practicing primary-care doctor. But as a medical student, I had interacted with patients suffering from neurodegeneration or acute clinical schizophrenia. It left an indelible mark on my memory.

James Rothman

#11. This course is designed for physicians, nurses, physician assistants, and allied care providers in the primary care setting who may identify and treat patients with chronic pain syndromes.

Mark Rose

#12. Families represent the basic building blocks of our society, and primary care a foundational piece of any healthcare system.

Tony Tan

#13. The alarming thing in China is the almost total absence of primary care. Even in cities, there are no independent doctors' offices or neighborhood clinics, so people have to go to the hospital for every health care need.

Nancy Travis

#14. There are some really good experiments with the youth offending service, joining up youth offending teams with the youth justice board, and good local authority and primary care trusts working together.

David Blunkett

#15. With the Australian Government paying more of the hospital bills, it will have the incentive to make sure people are treated through less expensive and more appropriate primary care services.

Kevin Rudd

#16. The health-care sector certainly employs more people and more machines than it did. But there have been no great strides in service. In Western Europe, most primary-care practices now use electronic health records and offer after-hours care; in the United States, most don't.

Atul Gawande

#17. The fact that women are the primary care-givers is a problem for women and men

Caroline Criado-Perez

#18. Each and every day health centers provide high-quality primary and preventive care to our constituents.

Jan Schakowsky

#19. Certainly the primary imperative of a physician is to be skilled in medical science, but if he or she does not probe a patient's soul, then the doctor's care is given without caring, and part of the sacred mission of healing is missing.

Jerome Groopman

#20. The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.

Wendell Berry

#21. You can care very much about someone without being capable of becoming their primary caregiver in the event of their parents' untimely death.

Mallory Ortberg

#22. The tent was for Abraham's living. Abraham did not take care of his living first. That was secondary. With Abraham, the primary matter [560] was to consecrate everything to God, to worship and serve God, and to have fellowship with God. Only then did Abraham pitch a tent for his living.

Witness Lee

#23. To provide employment for the poor, and support for the indigent, is among the primary, and, at the same time, not least difficult cares of the public authority.

James Madison

#24. What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If voters care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots.

Newt Gingrich

#25. The mother is the early care giver and primary source of identification for all children ... A daughter continues to identify with the mother

Nancy Chodorow

#26. Human relationships are primary in all of living. When the gusty winds blow and shake our lives, if we know that people care about us, we may bend with the wind ... but we won't break.

Fred Rogers

#27. Our primary health care should begin on the farm and in our hearts, and not in some laboratory of the biotech and pharmaceutical companies.

Gary Hopkins

#28. 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

#29. If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.

Samuel Johnson

#30. The prosperity of commerce is now perceived and acknowledged by all enlightened statesmen to be the most useful as well as the most productive source of national wealth, and has accordingly become a primary object of their political cares.

Alexander Hamilton