“Whether it's by helping us search for health-related information, connecting us with doctors through online portals, or enabling us to store and retrieve our medical records online, the Internet is starting to show the promise it has to transform the way people interact with and improve their own health and wellness.” PeopleWayHelpingShowsRecordsInformationInternetPromiseDoctorsStartingStoresMedicalRelatedWellnessOnlineConnectingEnablingHealth And WellnessPortalMedical RecordsHealth Related Author:Dean Ornish
“Vague promises of savings from cutting waste, enhancing prevention and wellness, installing electronic medical records and improving quality are merely ‘lipstick’ cost control, more for show and public relations than for true change... Savings will require changing how doctors think about their patients: Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously, “as an imperative to do everything for the patient regardless of the cost or effects on others.” ThinkingShowsQualityRecordsCuttingEffectsPromiseCostWasteDoctorsRelationPatientMedicalSavingWellnessVagueImprovingImperativesSavingsOathLipstickPublic RelationsPreventionMedical Records Author:Ezekiel Emanuel
“The Obama administration has admitted that under Obamacare, you might not be able to keep your doctor. At first the president guaranteed you'd be able to keep your doctor, and now they're saying you 'might' be able to. Today Obama changed his slogan from 'Yes we can' to 'Perhaps we could try. Can't promise anything.'” TryingFirstsMightTodayAblePresidentChangedPromiseDoctorsAdministrationSlogansObamacareYes We Can Author:Jay Leno
“And that means that no matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. If you like your health care plan, you'll be able to keep your health care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what.” PeopleIfsMeanMatterCareAblePlansPeriodsPromiseDoctorsNo Matter WhatReformHealth CareBroken PromisesBreaking PromisesKeeping PromisesKept PromisesPromises That Are Broken Author:Barack Obama
“Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.” PainPayKindnessPromiseDoctorsIllnessHeed Author:Marcel Proust
“I've been poked and prodded in places I'd always prided myself on keeping untouched for that one special doctor who gives me a ring and a promise someday.” GivingSpecialPromiseDoctorsGive MeRingsSomedayDoctor Who Book:Going Bovine Source: Going Bovine