Clinicians Quotes

Years ago we always took our best clinicians out of the lab and put them into administrative positions, which removed all the good ones from the clinics. They weren't really trained to handle personnel and finance issues though. - William Walence

We wanted to be able to link in some of the alerts that come off the equipment to the pagers for the nurses and other clinicians on the floor. - Paul McAuley

We have 13 research sites distributed throughout the world. Videoconferencing lets the biologists collaborate with the chemists and clinicians when they are all located at different sites. [With video] you can see the whole development spectrum and get the appropriate inputs. - Mark Lamon

We don't have a magic bullet for the treatment of schizophrenia and clinicians are struggling every day to find a medication that will work for individual patients. - Leslie Citrome

We are encouraged not only by these preliminary results, but also by the level of collaboration in the Parkinson's community. These findings represent the efforts of pharmacologists, clinicians, statisticians, and clinical trial experts- including NINDS staff- who have come together with academia, industry, patients, and foundation groups to advance the development of innovative therapies for Parkinson's. The exceptional speed of patient recruitment allowed us to finish this study in record time. - Story Landis

Unlike a techie person, who's just in the techie world, I'm in all these different worlds. Sometimes it's the techie stuff that I was trained for, but then I end up being the translator to let the clinicians know what the problems are. - Alan Lipschultz

Unfortunately for the large number of Americans and their families who are trying to live with TRD and their psychiatrists who are trying to help them, the Senate Finance Committee [Feb. 16] issued a report without having interviewed world-renowned experts on TRD, widely published biostatisticians, patients and families living with TRD, patient advocacy organizations like NAMI, VNS Therapy TRD study investigators, and all the FDA statisticians and clinicians involved in the review of the submissions, that ultimately led to the approval of the only FDA-approved treatment option for TRD. - Robert Cummins

To have a group of cloistered clinicians away completely from the broad current of professional life would be bad for teacher and worse for student. The primary work of a professor of medicine in a medical school is in the wards, teaching his pupils how to deal with patients and their diseases. - William Osler

The outcomes NCH Healthcare System has experienced are a testament to how healthcare IT provides clinicians with the tools to improve quality of care This technology has helped dedicated physicians and nurses to become more operationally efficient, fundamentally improving how care is delivered. - Trace Devanny