“The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.” ShouldShowsDoctorsMirrorsPatientOpaque Book:The Letters of Sigmund Freud and Otto Rank: Inside Psychoanalysis Source: The Letters of Sigmund Freud and Otto Rank: Inside Psychoanalysis
“A study of over 10,000 patients shows clearly that chemo's supposedly strong track record with Hodgkin's disease (lymphoma) is actually a lie. Patients who underwent chemo were 14 times more likely to develop leukemia and 6 times more likely to develop cancers of the bones, joints, and soft tissues than those patients who did not undergo chemotherapy .” ShowsLyingStrongStudyRecordsDiseasePatientTrackCancerBonesJointsTissuesTrack RecordChemotherapyLeukemia Author:John Diamond
“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