“It's unconscionable that cancer patients get the wrong diagnosis 30 percent of the time and that it takes so long to treat them with appropriate drugs for their cancer.” LongDrugPercentTreatsPatientCancerAppropriateDiagnosisCancer Patients Author:Patrick Soon-Shiong
“If you have a patient in a doctor's office who's just been told they have terminal cancer but there's this operation they could perform right now that might save their lives. ... They have a 90 percent chance of surviving the operation — if you tell them that, they respond one way. If you tell them ... that they have a 10 percent chance of being killed by the operation, they are about three times less likely to have the operation.” IfsWayMightThreeChanceRight NowOfficePercentDoctorsPatientCancerOne WayOperationsThree TimesSurvivingTerminalTerminal Cancer Author:Michael Lewis
“Less than 1 percent of the patients treated are alive at the end of five years.” YearsEndsFiveAlivePercentPatientTreatedFive Years Author:Michael Landon
“Nineteen percent of doctors say that they'd be able to give their patients a lethal injection. But they also went on to say that the patient would have to be really, really behind on payments.” GivingAbleBehindsComedyPercentDoctorsMedicinePatientPaymentNineteenInjectionLethal Injection Author:Jay Leno
“One of the first things we teach medical students is to listen to the patient by taking a careful medical history. Ninety percent of the time, you can arrive at an uncannily accurate diagnosis by paying close attention, using physical examination and sophisticated lab test to confirm your hunch (and to increase the bill to the insurance company).” FirstsAttentionCompanyTeachStudentsPercentTestsIncreaseBillsPatientCarefulMedicalAccurateSophisticatedNinetyExaminationDiagnosisLabsHunchesInsurance CompaniesMedical History Author:Vilayanur S. Ramachandran