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Words are the physicians of the mind diseased.

Aeschylus

This was due to a perceived lack of need, so clearly it's important that physicians and dentists and their patients with diabetes learn that they need to focus extra attention on oral health.

Dr. Robin Goland

I think that a lot of physicians really see drug testing as a fairly simple lab test when, in fact, it is not at all.

Dr. Sharon Levy

We anticipate medical health screenings and other kinds of things like that. Other Y's across the country have even had family physicians on site.

Steve Tarver

Obesity is high in this country for adults and for children, and it has to do with diet and the choice of food. Physicians must confront obesity where they can and not have the weight of government on them as they do it.

Terry Bennett

It is driving up the cost of health care because physicians are facing more challenges.

Aaron A. Farmer

They went where they were needed, and that's why we are here today. We saw the opportunity to expand, to serve and to bring new physicians to this area.

Tim Brady

Most people acknowledge the gaps in the quality of care, and most physicians are aware that we need to do better. The question is how to get from where we are to where we want to be.

Michael Barr

Boone Pickens is one of this country's greatest philanthropists, and Eugene Frenkel is one of its finest physicians, so this partnership is as appropriate as it is meaningful.

Dr. Kern Wildenthal

Physicians, nurses ... have been documented repeatedly to not wash their hands properly, ... At best, it is 40 percent of the time that we recommend that they should wash their hands (that they really do).

William Jarvis

There are more old drunkards than old physicians.

Francois Rabelais

Dr. Spain and Cardiology of Tulsa are helping lead the way to a more connected healthcare community. By informing and connecting physicians through the use of electronic medical records, they are able to provide a more efficient and patient-friendly healthcare experience.

Steve Shihadeh

[Insurance] becomes a vehicle for the hospital to try to build its relationship with physicians, ... They can try to use that as a competitive advantage.

Michael Preston

Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.

Marcel Proust

This is a particularly valuable option for physicians and other high-risk professionals who are at constant at risk of lawsuits in our increasingly litigious society.

Ron Z. Mendelson

I think we as physicians are going to see assembly of a large number of antimicrobial peptides targeted against specific organisms, including viruses.

Michael Zasloff

With a study like this coming from someone like Topol, the debate becomes more apparent to physicians and consumers.

Richard L. Evans

This was 100 percent the physician's mistake.

Dr. Nikolai Durmanov

We are trying to get referrals from the physicians themselves.

Dennis Mcbride

It was common knowledge that at least some physicians who performed abortions were not fully disclosing the alternative options to the women or leaving that part of the information to one of their less-qualified staff.

Bob Brooks

The effects are immediate. This will help patients now. We are educating physicians, nurses, pharmacists, dietitians — the entire healthcare team. We're giving them the tools they need to better treat patients.

Raymond Reynolds

If physicians suggest, either directly or even implicitly, that faith and religious activity are associated with health, ... then they indirectly suggest the opposite -- which is that the disease and illness are associated with insufficient faith and insufficient devotion.

Richard Sloan

GOUT, n. A physician's name for the rheumatism of a rich patient.

Ambrose Bierce

Part of the problem is our fault as physicians and health-care providers.

Alpen Patel

We are always trying to attract new physicians for their services. The med school connection has helped us become more aggressive in getting new physicians in here.

Virgil Kelly

We know that great content, great speakers, and a venue that's a draw for physicians are all important factors for dinner meetings. But very little is known about how physicians decide which dinner meetings to attend. We need more specific demographic data to help us figure out what it is the doctors want in a dinner meeting and how to give it to them in the most efficient manner.

James Montague

We can not have physicians in a position, as we're hearing and as doctors are telling us, to feel intimidated or threatened in any way to sign forms if in fact these people do not meet those medical conditions.

Sandra Pupatello

It is physician-owned, and all the board members are physicians.

Barry Baker

The underreporting of this disease is monumental. Physicians don't even consider it when they treat adults for persistent cough.

Joel Ward

She didn't tell anyone in town about it. We just found out because one of my physicians is on the board.

Dr. Rex Northup

We are making the prescribing information much more targeted and useful for physicians.

Dr. Janet Woodcock

If physicians find a drug that's going to drop blood pressure by five [points], they're going to be very happy with that drug.

Louise Hawkley

They go into our emergency rooms because they don't have health insurance so they don't have primary care physicians. Now you can't get into an emergency room down here.

Steven Berman

So comedians truly are physicians of the soul ... that's what you can call me, Dr. Dreesen.

Tom Dreesen

Petaluma doctors are taking very significant action, and it is sending a message to other physicians throughout the area.

Daymon Doss

It takes a lot of people getting sick, and going to physicians, and then it also takes the physicians diagnosing the illness and recognizing that it's water-borne, and very often all of those things don't happen.

Robert Morris

Physicians themselves haven't lost anything. As long as revenue is there, they're getting paid.

Girish Tyagi

Knowing that we are general physicians and that our patients are going to have needs that far exceed the capability that we have here, we can be a strong referral source to those facilities as well.

Nicole Spoor

[How many doctors are instituting these new fees?] We don't have any hard numbers, ... Physicians are seriously interested in this and some have implemented it, but it appears it has been implemented in a fairly limited fashion. There hasn't been any real drumbeat about it from the public.

Michael Preston

The Ministerial Alliance picked up that concept ... and brought it to the attention of both hospitals and physicians who were interested.

Mike Potter

Physicians are beginning to understand that the only way they'll get in trouble is if they don't do what the patient wanted -- that's why this case is important.

George Annas

This new hurricane presents enormous additional challenges and hardships for everyone affected, and Aetna will do what we can to help our members get care and comfort, ... With so many people cut off from their usual physicians, hospitals and pharmacies, we are expanding our efforts to help members, in addition to continuing coverage even if they are unable to make premium payments.

John W. Rowe

This study is one of the first to quantify the uncompensated care provided by Florida emergency physicians.

Barbara Langland Orban

Was this an old disease, and, if so, which one? If it was new, what did that say about the state of medical knowledge? And in any case, how could physicians make sense of it?

Peter Lewis Allen

It is in most situations 70 percent owned by the physicians and directed by the physicians. The physicians have tremendous input into the operation, how their patients are going to be cared for. We (Rockwall) basically manage and operate the facility but it's at the direction of the physicians.

Terry Fontenot

We're concerned about a loss of physicians. We're asking people to hold in there for a year.

Stan Rosenstein

Physicians are interested in providing good patient care. Patients are interested in receiving the best care available. The best way to get there is for us to trust each other.

Jeffrey Segal

It expresses our concern that, over time, the labels became cluttered with a lot of information that wasn't necessarily directly pertinent to the patient and the physician. These labels need to be reclaimed for patients and physicians.

Dr. Scott Gottlieb

The bottom line is physicians and all health care workers are in a unique position to determine if inappropriate relationships exist and intervene very early in the game.

John Nelson

We expect the outbreak in a week or two. School vacation will end soon. Along with this inevitable for physicians factor, the season of flue outbreak will come.

Gennady Onishchenko

I think (Hudson) is going to be more oriented in listening to doctors and be more open-minded about ideas doctors have. I think he'll be a good fit with physicians here.

Jerry Dorsey

Physicians are no different than you or me. They have a mortgage payment. They have tuition payments, ... They are still here on their own good will, but they are not getting paid for it.

Mark Peters

Part of it is the responsibility of patients and part of it is physicians and trying to keep up with the latest guidelines for how intensively to treat high blood pressure and high cholesterol.

Dr. Deepak Bhatt

We're not going to comment on the reasons for the change. Relationships between physicians and Health First Health Plans change on an ongoing basis for a variety of reasons.

Keith Lundquist

They all have physical ailments. They know from talking with their physicians that they need more physical activity. Becoming aware of their personal issues with exercise and knowing what they can accomplish will benefit them. This is what the program is all about.

Shirley Pogue

It will be an ideal data set for students and physicians who have a very specific hypothesis that can be answered using the information we already have available.

Dr. Leslie Crofford

We hope these results will convince more physicians and parents as well, that treating children with mild to moderate asthma with inhaled corticosteroids will result in better asthma control and improved quality of life.

Claude Lenfant

The ethical standard is pretty much universal. It's the same reason physicians can't be involved in coerced interrogations.

Leonard Rubenstein

It provides us an opportunity to collaborate with physicians to do something with them and meet some of their needs while feeling secure about the future of the heart center and the closeness of the relationship between the hospital and the physicians groups.

Stan Taylor

Our presence on site on a daily basis helps our physicians with their diagnostic dilemmas. If you don't provide the service, someone else will.

Dr. Kent Rohweder

It's almost impossible for them to figure out how much alternative care substitutes for conventional care. Are people who use these therapies seeing their physicians for the same disorder? Are they seeing them less? Are they getting fewer tests?

Stephen Rosenberg

It allows physicians to use their best medical judgment.

Stephanie Grutman

As long as physicians can embrace it, it will be a huge timesaver. The speed getting answers and corrections could greatly help.

Pat Epple

It's good for patients in that they're going to get the necessary and appropriate care in a timely manner, and it's good for doctors, because they will be able to take care of their patients as they see fit and it should do away with a lot of hassle factor and the administrative nightmares that physicians are talking about.

Thomas Reardon

Our vision is to become indispensable to physicians.

Glen Tullman

I hope to be working in a hospital as a nurse, with a degree, until I reach my goal of becoming a physician's assistant.

Valerie Scott

It's very good news for patients because there is a choice available to treating physicians.

Fred Modell

I think many clinicians, many physicians, are now listening and also learning about complementary therapies.

David Rosenthal

This country is on the verge of facing a substantial shortage of physicians.

Michael Whitcomb

It was rough going, to say the least. The physicians thought we were insurance. They didn't know what we were. It was new. They didn't want their name or their prices listed. It was one obstacle after the next.

Ryan Jumonville

I am dying with the help of too many physicians.

Alexander The Great

I don't know that physicians would be aware of the impact that dosing would have on a plan's benefits.

Noella Ronald

This foundation represents a wonderful and unprecedented opportunity to help physicians in their efforts to make this complex and confusing healthcare system a better one for all Americans.

Tim Norbeck

We at Guidant recognize that there is an increased appetite for information from our industry among physicians and patients. We have also asked an independent panel of outside experts to provide recommendations.

Steve Tragash

With increased awareness of this connection, IBD patients can initiate or maintain an open dialogue with their physicians and discuss their personal and family history of colorectal cancer as well as symptoms and medications, which are crucial components to cancer prevention.

Mark Goldman

We are making the prescribing information much more targeted and useful for physicians. The prescribing information over the years, as we learned more and more about medicines, has become very congested and complex. We've heard from physicians it's hard for them to find the information they need.

Dr. Janet Woodcock

Most physicians are on top of the paperwork for the first two patients they see in the morning and then fall behind. By 5:30 or 6:00 they stop seeing patients and tackle a stack of paperwork.

John Sherry

We know that there are efforts to recruit physicians and that some regions are finding success.

Steve Slade

It's typical for the physicians to contact the health department when there is something like this that's contagious. Any communicable disease, we try to follow up on.

Linda Jones

The distinct majority [60 percent] said errors had occurred outside the hospital. In all countries, mistakes were more likely in patients who said they saw four or more physicians, signaling a failure to communicate across sites of care.

Cathy Schoen

I see every physician's office, every hospital, every clinic being involved in handing out information.

Dr. Grayson Wheatley

DIAGNOSIS, n. A physician's forecast of the disease by the patient's pulse and purse.

Ambrose Bierce

The information is vastly better on cars than it is on physicians.

Robert Krughoff

We found no consensus among physicians about what is customary or appropriate. Despite efforts to standardize many aspects of the doctor-patient relationship, patients are likely to encounter very different approaches.

Dr. Farr Curlin

What we need is a system that's fair to everyone, a system that keeps the physicians in practice and allows patients to have access to physicians in their hour of need.

Donald Palmisano

For example, we found that physicians really don't do a good job being able to distinguish the clinical markers of the rash for chickenpox and smallpox, ... They also had problems with distinguishing a patient's presenting with an attack of botulism from other illnesses.

Stephen Sisson

There just aren't enough physicians in the National Guard to do this.

James Barber

Our goal is to continue to streamline our interactions with physicians, hospitals, customers and other stakeholders and create a more cost-efficient and much better experience for these stakeholders to transact business with the Michigan Blues.

Mark Bartlett

Informed physicians will be less likely to go bare. It places a tremendous amount of importance on proper asset protection.

Aaron A. Farmer

Many operating physicians have to operate blind. We have to make medical decisions not knowing what kind of medicines you take or allergies you have.

John Halamka

The data we have comes from a physician re-registration survey. So when physicians are renewing their licenses we can capture information about them.

Jean Moore

It's such a natural fit for us. After all, that's our job in any accident: to function as the physician's eyes, ears and hands.

Alex Mcleod

We tend to compliment what other medical facilities, what other physicians, and what other hospital companies do in our community.

Robert Hardy

We would hope that physicians would recognize that clinical skills and communications skills are very important to maintaining one's competency as a physician.

Nancy Achin Audesse

But for physicians moving from a 30-year-old building into a new building, whether it's ours or one across the street, they're going to experience some sticker shock.

Matt Jensen

My sense is that the discussion around erectile dysfunction and physicians may be somewhat more enthusiastic or easier as new products enter the market, ... The barriers between ... patient and physician will be much easier with newer entrants [to the market].

Tony Butler

I think you're going to see a bit of a struggle between patients and physicians going forward, which I think can blunt the near-term uptake of the drug.

Chris Raymond

I think a lot (of the increase) has come about because physicians don't want to be awakened in the middle of the night, so they schedule patients when it is convenient.

Charles Lockwood

Our findings suggest that CPR may currently succeed more often than physicians commonly believe.

Dr. Vinay Nadkarni

PRESCRIPTION, n. A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.

Ambrose Bierce

This study would indicate that even though someone was exposed some 30 or 40 years ago, when you go to a physician, it's probably a good idea to bring it to the physician's attention.

John Boice

Our location is centrally located in Montcalm County near cities and several universities, and that also tends to attract physicians and their families.

Steve Scott

I wanted to put a voice out there that was from a professional side -- that as physicians, we are going to face immigration as an issue.

Erik Cabral

Hospitals and physicians historically have not done a good job with customer service. But there's a sense at some of those hospitals that we need to change because our competition is changing.

Elizabeth Woodcock