Quotes by Kocher, Gerhard

"Do not ask what the Government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't."

Kocher, Gerhard on government   

"Do not forget: in medicine, there are more important things than life and death: dollars and cents. "

Kocher, Gerhard on medicine   

"A good health policy is based on three principles. Unfortunately, nobody knows them. "

Kocher, Gerhard on health   

"Soft data, hard conflicts. "

Kocher, Gerhard on information   

"Believe me - the Government will help you anytime it needs you. "

Kocher, Gerhard on government   

"The Silent majority is silent, and that is best for everybody."

Kocher, Gerhard on democracy   

"There are two types of politicians: the ones that are courageous and honest, and the ones that have a steep career."

Kocher, Gerhard on politics   

"In a hospital, half of the patients get better food than at home. "

Kocher, Gerhard on hospitals   

"After each stay in a hospital I live extremely healthy (sometimes up to five days!). "

Kocher, Gerhard on hospitals   

"The most frequent lie in a hospital: it won't hurt. "

Kocher, Gerhard on hospitals   

"Life is one of the most important causes of death. "

Kocher, Gerhard on death   

"Never ask a surgeon whether you need an operation. "

Kocher, Gerhard on doctors
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"Medicine knows no limits, especially not its own."

Kocher, Gerhard on medicine   

"From year to year, it is more obvious: the goal of medicine is not health but the further extension of the health system."

Kocher, Gerhard on medicine   

"You can't treat a car like a patient. A car needs love. "

Kocher, Gerhard on medicine   

"The relation nurse/doctor is even more complex than the relation patient/doctor. "

Kocher, Gerhard on doctors   

"Mankind has survived all catastrophes. It will also survive modern medicine. "

Kocher, Gerhard on medicine   

"The call for free markets would be more successful if it came from more sympathetic people."

Kocher, Gerhard on capitalism   

"Is my dentist not bound by the Geneva Convention? "

Kocher, Gerhard on doctors   

"War is the father of all things. But who is the mother?"

Kocher, Gerhard on war   

"Pharma industry is the art of making billions from milligrams."

Kocher, Gerhard on drugs
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"Nursing would be a dream job if there were no doctors. "

Kocher, Gerhard on doctors   

"Many of us will die for science without knowing it. "

Kocher, Gerhard on medicine   

"I am a staunch feminist, in spite of all women's magazines. "

Kocher, Gerhard on feminism   

"Boxing is dangerous, but at least it hits the right people. "

Kocher, Gerhard on boxing   

"How easy would life be if you were less intelligent! "

Kocher, Gerhard on intelligence and intellectuals   

"Life is a loss of time. "

Kocher, Gerhard on death   

"Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace? "

Kocher, Gerhard on death   

"Don't tell my parents that I work in the pharmaceutical industry. They think I am working in a brothel."

Kocher, Gerhard on industry   

"Bad people are less a problem than indifferent people. "

Kocher, Gerhard on indifference
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