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It took 23 years from Abraxane being conceived to us showing now with conclusiveness that it works in pancreatic cancer. We cannot afford as a society to wait another 23 years to make sure that the patients get the right care, at the right time, at the right place. Patrick Soon-Shiong

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You'd believe that a patient with hypertension, if you know you have hypertension or diabetes, you would take your drug every day. The compliance rate is more like 30% or 40%. Which means that 60% of patients don't take their drugs, and they actually go into these crises, end up in the hospital. Patrick Soon-Shiong

Day You Every Day Diabetes Patient Believe Every Crises Compliance Would Rate More Hospital Take Like Know Go End Up Patients Which Means Your Actually

Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now vote but they can't get medical care or clean water. Paul Farmer

Since I do not believe that there should be different recommendations for people living in the Bronx and people living in Manhattan, I am uncomfortable making different recommendations for my patients in Boston and in Haiti. Paul Farmer

People Believe Living Bronx Recommendations Be Different Boston Uncomfortable Since Haiti Making Am Patients Different Manhattan Should

The physician's duty is not to stave off death or return patients to their old lives, but to take into our arms a patient and family whose lives have disintegrated and work until they can stand back up and face - and make sense of - their own existence. Paul Kalanithi

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What patients seek is not scientific knowledge that doctors hide, but existential authenticity each person must find on her own... the angst of facing mortality has no remedy in probability. Paul Kalanithi

The World Health Organisation has a lot of its medical experts sitting in Geneva while hospitals in Africa have no drugs and desperate patients are forced to seek medication on the black market. Pauline Hanson

Health World Desperate Black Market Seek Hospitals Geneva Forced Lot Sitting Africa Patients Experts While Organisation Medical Medication

The idea of infection began to be taken far more seriously than it ever had before. Hospitals transformed themselves in response to the new plague - sometimes for the better, but often for the worse, as when, in fear, they cast their ulcerated patients out into the streets. Peter Lewis Allen

Fear Better Sometimes Seriously Before Worse Out Response More Cast Hospitals Had Taken Idea New Began Infection Than Often Patients Transformed Plague Far Themselves Ever Streets

Once we as doctors are entrusted with the well-being of our patients and their children, it is our duty to take action, to be selfless, and fulfill our obligation to the service of others. I did so willingly, and it brought me great joy throughout my professional career. However, I always had a desire to do more. Phil Gingrey

Service Great Me Obligation Joy Doctors Duty Action Others Our Once Willingly Great Joy Brought More Throughout Take Entrusted Had Well-Being Always However Selfless Did Patients Children Fulfill Professional Professional Career Career Desire

More than half of the complaints that patients bring to their doctors are emotional in origin. Most often, they include troubled or absent connections with loved ones. Robert J. Waldinger

Half Doctors Complaints More Absent Troubled Emotional Most Than Often Patients Loved Loved Ones Origin Connections Include Bring

The artificial heart is very effective as a bridge to transplant, but the number of people that can be saved with human hearts is limited. A perfect artificial heart could save many more patients. Robert Jarvik

Heart People Saved More Perfect Could Limited Effective Very Hearts Artificial Human Patients Transplant Many Bridge Number Save

I do not practice clinical medicine and hence do not treat individual patients. My career is in medical science. Robert Jarvik

Science Treat Practice Medicine Individual Clinical Patients Hence Medical Career

Pay-for-procedure or fee-for-service reimbursement rewards doctors and hospitals for volume - not keeping patients healthy or being efficiency. Pay-for-Performance is clearly one tool that can change the incentives to reward quality. Ron Wyden

Change Quality Reward Doctors Healthy Tool Hospitals Volume Clearly Efficiency Patients Rewards Being Incentives Reimbursement Keeping

When the Veterans Affairs Department implemented a program to provide home-based health care to veterans with multiple chronic conditions - many of the system's most expensive patients to treat - they received astounding results. Ron Wyden

At the age of 16, my father's father dropped dead of a heart attack. And I think it changed the course of his life, and he became fascinated with death. He then became a medical doctor and obviously fought death tooth and nail for his patients. Sally Mann

No one knows quite the reason, but surgically severing the corpus callosum can reduce the rate and intensity of seizures. So in the early 1960s, a few patients with severe epilepsy had their corpus callosums cut, turning them into split-brain people. Sam Kean

People Few Severe Rate Had No-One Knows Reduce Intensity Quite Patients Them Cut Turning Reason Early

Things look especially bleak for common killers such as diabetes and heart disease. Those ailments clearly have a genetic component. But when scientists survey genes looking for which mutations patients have in common, they come up empty. Sam Kean

Economists specialize in pointing out unpleasant trade-offs - a skill that is on full display in the health care debate. We want patients to receive the best care available. We also want consumers to pay less. And we don't want to bankrupt the government or private insurers. Something must give. Sendhil Mullainathan

Government Best Health Debate Care Pay Out Must Unpleasant Give Something Pointing Consumers Economists Also Health Care Private Patients Bankrupt Want Available Skill Full Less Display Specialize Receive

Patient transfer service is another revolutionary step of the Punjab government, under which patients from tehsil headquarters hospitals and district headquarters hospitals are being shifted to large hospitals free of cost. Shehbaz Sharif

Service Government Free Patient District Cost Hospitals Step Headquarters Another Shifted Revolutionary Patients Being Transfer Which Large

Ever since Katrina, there has been a proliferation of efforts at the state level and among hospital administrators to come up with guidelines that would help professionals stuck in a situation like this to prioritize patients. These are questions of values much more than they are of medicine or nursing. They're the province of everybody. Sheri Fink

Values Situation Medicine Everybody State Nursing State Level Guidelines Proliferation Has-Been Would Administrators More Stuck Hospital Since Come Like Prioritize Been Province Questions Up Than Efforts Patients Much Help Katrina Professionals Ever Among Level

In the United States, Western Europe and Japan, there is widespread access to dialysis, most of it publicly funded. But in many countries, the majority of patients who need dialysis die without it. Sheri Fink

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