“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
“Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour.” GivingTwoEffectsSeriousPromiseColourPurplePatchesSerious Work Author:Horace
“We live in a silly time, and people go to the movies to see something that they haven't seen before, and you have to promise to show them that. In a horrible way, you have to promise them a special effect.” PeopleWayShowsSpecialEffectsHavensPromiseSillyHorribleSpecial Effects Author:David Fincher
“Education is something that should not be organized on a for-profit basis, because in that case its purpose is not really to provide an education. It's not to teach students how to get better work, but how to provide banks with a free giveaway opportunity from the government, by making junk loans that are defaulted on. The effect may be to wreck the futures of the graduates that fall for the false promises that are being made.” ShouldMayMadeGovernmentPurposeFallOpportunityTeachCasesEffectsStudentsPromiseBasesProfitGet BetterOrganizedGraduatesLoanJunkWrecksFalse Promises Author:Michael Hudson