We must accept human error as inevitable - and design around that fact.

Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets.

Some is not a number. Soon is not a time.

We are guests in our patients' lives.

The Holy Grail of universal coverage in the United States may remain out of reach unless, through rational collective action overriding some individual self-interest, we can reduce per capita costs.

It is, I guess, politically correct, widely believed, that to say that American health care is the best in the world. It's not.

Right now, we are doing it blindly.

Traditional medical ethics, based on the doctor-patient relationship must be changed... The primary function of health care regulations should be to limit an individuals own decision-making!

I am romantic about the NHS. I love it.

As a doctor, an educator, an innovator and someone who has dedicated his professional career to making things work better and to helping people – I am ready to lead.

As a doctor, an educator, an innovator and someone who has dedicated his professional career to making things work better and to helping people - I am ready to lead.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter usfrom the support of a cause we believe to be just.

...Chief without soldiers is just a very lonely man in a big bloody field

He printed business cards celebrating his shift. They read, 'Ars gratia pecuniae.' Translated, it meant, 'Art for money's sake.

Wealth is not limited

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

I hear they burn for murder. Well, they say it just takes a second to die.

If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.

If the truth is with you, let anything else be against you! You will win! If the truth is not with you but everything else is on your side, it doesn't matter, you will lose!

Necessity does everything well.

I did almost every job in the bank. It was real life, waking up in the morning, putting on a suit and tie and then having to go to work.