"Da arbeiten Politiker Handlungsleitlinien aus, die der Arzt abarbeiten soll. Schon ist der Patient gesund. Eine völlig mechanistische Vorstellung der Medizin."
"Die Kassenärztlichen Vereinigungen haben einen sogenannten Sicherstellungsauftrag, weswegen man vor gut siebzig Jahren das Streikrecht aufgegeben hat."
"Any eventual reform to health care, regardless of who wins, is going to become the usual mess based first on ideological inclination and then processed through the machine of money, industry influence, political pandering and either "compromise" or "cooperation," depending on how one views unwillingness to demand absolutes."
"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."