"If anyone is to blame for moving from a professional contract to a jump-through-the-hoops contract it is the government. All this comes, of course, from listening to management consultants who seem to think that people will work only for money and have no concept of professionalism. Professionalism is under threat. It is very sad."
"It is my privilege and duty to care for people who come to see me ---- as patients. There is a respect involved with that term which is absent from the term consumer, and which is important in maintaining the dignity of the individual."
"Wir sollten eine verbindliche Regelung machen, dass Kassenärztliche Vereinigungen, also die Ärzteschaft, Patienten innerhalb von zwei bis drei Wochen einen Termin beim Facharzt anbieten müssen. Ansonsten wird ihr Gesamtbudget gekürzt. Dann kriegen die Kassenärztlichen Vereinigungen weniger Geld von den Krankenkassen. Das wäre mal eine wirkliche Hilfe für gesetzlich Versicherte."