Gerhard Kocher

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

— Gerhard Kocher

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

— Gerhard Kocher

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

— Gerhard Kocher

Soft data, hard conflicts.

— Gerhard Kocher

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

— Gerhard Kocher

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

— Gerhard Kocher

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

— Gerhard Kocher

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

— Gerhard Kocher

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

— Gerhard Kocher

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

— Gerhard Kocher

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

— Gerhard Kocher

Never ask a surgeon whether you need an operation.

— Gerhard Kocher

Medicine knows no limits, especially not its own.

— Gerhard Kocher

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

— Gerhard Kocher

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

— Gerhard Kocher

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

— Gerhard Kocher

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

— Gerhard Kocher

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

— Gerhard Kocher

Is my dentist not bound by the Geneva Convention?

— Gerhard Kocher

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

— Gerhard Kocher

Pharma industry is the art of making billions from milligrams.

— Gerhard Kocher

Nursing would be a dream job if there were no doctors.

— Gerhard Kocher

Many of us will die for science without knowing it.

— Gerhard Kocher

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

— Gerhard Kocher

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

— Gerhard Kocher

How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

— Gerhard Kocher

Life is a loss of time.

— Gerhard Kocher

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

— Gerhard Kocher

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

— Gerhard Kocher

Bad people are less a problem than indifferent people.

— Gerhard Kocher