Quotable
Quotes
A few favorites - these and many others are scattered throughout Apollo publications.
You miss 100
percent of the shots you never take.
Wayne Gretzky
Choosing
doctors * based on low cost doesn’t eliminate the 20 to 40 percent of care
that is being delivered unnecessarily.
John
M. Burns, M.D.
Vice
President for Health Management,
* Or
any other provider (ed.)
Honeywell,
1993
If you don’t know where you’re going, when you
get there you’ll be lost.
Yogi
Berra
The trouble with facts is that there are so many of
them.
Samuel
McChord Crothers
The Gentle Reader
It’s
a wonderful feeling when you discover some evidence to support your beliefs.
Anonymous
The practice of evidence-based medicine means
integrating individual clinical expertise with the best-available external
clinical evidence from systematic research.
Centre
for Evidence-based Medicine, Oxford University
The great tragedy of Science: the slaying of a
beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Thomas
Huxley (1825-95)
Biogenesis and Abigenesis
J.
Daniel Beckham,
Healthcare Forum Journal, 1997
The health maintenance organization is an attempt
– a first and so far very tentative, and none too successful attempt – to
bring the entire process of health care delivery under partnership management.
Peter
F. Drucker
Management’s
New Paradigms
Typically, physicians have
responded to utilization review by demonizing insurers and holding
unassailable the physician’s ability to determine what is best for the
patient. However, …
Winthrop
F. Whitcomb, MD
Restoring
a Physician-led Healthcare System.
Postgraduate Medicine
(104) #3, 13-16, 1998
In an ideal
world, there would be no limit to the resources available. The truth of the
matter, however, is that medical care resources have always been, are right
now, and will always be limited – and therefore, in some way, rationed. For
one reason or another, some individuals are treated while others are not.
Christopher
R. Armstrong, MD, MPH and Robin Whitlock, MDiv
The
Cost of Care: two troublesome cases in health care ethics
The Physician Executive, vol. 24, #6, 199
It ain’t what it should be…
It
ain’t what it’s gonna be…
But
thank God, it ain’t what it used to be…
Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The practice of evidence-based medicine means integrating individual
clinical expertise with the best-available external clinical evidence from
systematic research.
Centre for
Evidence-based Medicine, Oxford University
The great tragedy of Science: the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by
an ugly fact.
Thomas Huxley (1825-95)
Biogenesis and Abigenesis
If you don’t know where you’re going, when you get there you’ll be
lost.
Yogi Berra
If doctors say
quality will fall as reimbursements fall, they are insulting themselves. The
truth is that, when a group of laborers are in surplus, wages fall.
[Physicians] are the only group that is unwilling to accept that.
Uwe W. Reinhardt
Princeton Health Economist
Stay curious. Make small bets. Build organizational
hothouses. Feed the seedlings that grow.
Joe
Flower
Living
the question. The Physician Executive
76-8, July/Aug 1999
à
If
the going gets easy, you may be going downhill.
à
If you want your dreams to come true, don’t oversleep.
à
It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.
à
Failing to prepare, we prepare to fail.
à
Action speaks louder than words, but not nearly as often.
à
You are rich according to what you are, not according to what you have.
à
Frogs have it easy. They can eat what bugs them.
à
Give all the credit away.
John Wooden
What
others have said…
We know what happens to people who stay in the
middle of the road. They get run over.
Aneurin
Bevan, British politician
He who has a choice has trouble.
Dutch
proverb
It’s a very fine thing to be honest, but it is
also very important to be right.
Winston
Churchill, British statesman and prime minister
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve
it.
Anonymous
Separate those things you can control from those
you can’t.
Randy
Shilts
“I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore,
Toto.”
Dorothy
Gayle, The Wizard of Oz.
The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle
to the strong, but that’s the way to bet.
Damon
Runyon
Nothing in the world can take the place of
perseverance.
Calvin
Coolidge
Ordinary service meets client needs. Exceptional
service anticipates them.
Republic
National Bank of New York advertisement, 1997