My job as a physician is to make sure I have provided my patients with the best options to make the decisions that affect their lives.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I don't necessarily want my physician making all my decisions.
As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.
I love the opportunity to help my patients, to work with them to find the best course of action to get them healthy and to give them the information they need to stay healthy.
As a physician, I understand how important it is to collect data on people so we can understand what's happening with them. I will be in the position to help enable that knowledge.
I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.
I see my job as being to facilitate the life of clinical researchers so that they can be more productive, and trying to keep the bureaucracy from getting in their way.
My whole professional life has been dedicated to improving access, affordability, quality and choice of health care.
Increasingly we know that we're going to have multiple medical conditions, and the person who's got the greatest incentive to manage those conditions is the patient him or herself.
Providing patients and consumers with solid information on the cost and quality of their healthcare options can literally make the difference between life or death; and play a decisive role in whether a family or employer can afford healthcare.
I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.