“As a doctor, let me tell you what self-love does: It improves your hearing, your eyesight, lowers your blood pressure, increases pulmonary function, cardiac output, and helps wiring the musculature. So, if we had a rampant epidemic of self-love then our healthcare costs would go down dramatically. So, this isn't just some little frou-frou new age notion, oh love yourself honey. This is hardcore science.” IfsLoveInspirationalLittlesDoeSelfHelpingAgeBloodLove YouSelf LoveCostAnxietyDoctorsLet MeFunctionIncreasePressureNotionHearingSelf AcceptanceHoneyLove YourselfHealthcareImprovingNew AgeEpidemicsOutputHardcoreBlood PressureEyesightWiringGynecologistsCardiacObstetricians Author:Christiane Northrup
“The problem with most children's hospitals is that they are passive. They are high quality. They are filled with the best doctors. But their function is to wait until kids get sick and get referred in.” ChildrenProblemKidsWaitingQualityDoctorsSickFunctionFilledHospitalsPassiveHigh Quality Author:Irwin Redlener
“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!” ShouldCareIndividualDecisionChangedLimitsEthicsDoctorsFunctionPatientMedicalTraditionalPrimariesHealth CareDecision MakingRegulation Author:Donald Berwick
“The religion of my doctor or my lawyer cannot matter. That consideration has nothing in common with the functions of the friendship they owe me.” MatterCommonDoctorsFunctionLawyerConsideration Author:Michel de Montaigne
“If you don't do any self-examinations or see a doctor ever, you'll live forever. That's how you do it. The diagnosis is what gets you. You just have a don't ask, don't tell policy with any and all bodily functions.” IfsSelfAsksForeverPolicyDoctorsFunctionExaminationDiagnosisLive ForeverSelf-examinationBodily Functions Author:Janeane Garofalo
“If the economy of a country collapses completely and the hospitals are no longer able to function as hospitals, it will be very difficult to tell every doctor to stay home to work without drugs, to work without equipment. You might tell some to stay but there a lot of young people who are at the beginning of their careers who would be very difficult to persuade.” PeopleIfsCountryHomeMightWould BeAbleYoungDifficultCareersEconomyDrugDoctorsFunctionHospitalsCollapseEquipment Author:Chinua Achebe
“To think, analyze and invent, he [Pierre Menard] also wrote me, “are not anomalous acts, but the normal respiration of the intelligence. To glorify the occasional fulfillment of this function, to treasure ancient thoughts of others, to remember with incredulous amazement that the doctor universal is thought, is to confess our languor or barbarism. Every man should be capable of all ideas, and I believe that in the future he will be." (Jorge Luis Borges, "Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote, 1939)” ThinkingMenShouldBelieveIdeasRememberI BelieveNormalCapableDoctorsUniversalFunctionAncientEvery ManTreasureFulfillmentOccasionalGlorifyBarbarismAmazementBorgesRespiration Author:Jorge Luis Borges
“Doctors and nurses, with their training and their experiences, they would be able to detect unusual patterns of disease. That's why we say it is important for every country to have a proper surveillance system. The function of the surveillance system is to detect unusual patterns of diseases.” ImportantCountryWould BeAbleDiseaseTrainingDoctorsFunctionPatternsUnusualNurseSurveillanceDoctors And Nurses Author:Margaret Chan
“A president is a high-level official who is elected to carry out a function. He is not a king, not a god. He is not the witch doctor of a tribe who knows everything. He is a civil servant. I think the ideal way of living is to live like the vast majority of people whom we attempt to serve and represent.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayPresidentLevelsPowerfulKingsIdealsDoctorsFunctionMajorityHumbleServantOfficialsWitchTribesPoorestHigh LevelCivil ServantsWitch Doctors Author:Jose Mujica