Gerhard Kocher
27 quotations
Do not ask what the Government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't.
Do not forget: in medicine, there are more important things than life and death: dollars and cents.
A good health policy is based on three principles. Unfortunately, nobody knows them.
Soft data, hard conflicts.
Believe me - the Government will help you anytime it needs you.
The Silent majority is silent, and that is best for everybody.
In a hospital, half of the patients get better food than at home.
After each stay in a hospital I live extremely healthy (sometimes up to five days!).
The most frequent lie in a hospital: it won't hurt.
Life is one of the most important causes of death.
Never ask a surgeon whether you need an operation.
Medicine knows no limits, especially not its own.
You can't treat a car like a patient. A car needs love.
The relation nurse/doctor is even more complex than the relation patient/doctor.
Mankind has survived all catastrophes. It will also survive modern medicine.
The call for free markets would be more successful if it came from more sympathetic people.
Is my dentist not bound by the Geneva Convention?
War is the father of all things. But who is the mother?
Pharma industry is the art of making billions from milligrams.
Nursing would be a dream job if there were no doctors.
Many of us will die for science without knowing it.
I am a staunch feminist, in spite of all women's magazines.
Boxing is dangerous, but at least it hits the right people.
How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!
Life is a loss of time.