The key is to cut out the middleman and empower both doctor and patient with information about what things cost.
BEN CARSONI pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do – and not only for operating, but for everything.
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I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me.
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There’s absolutely no reason at all that physicians, scientists, shouldn’t be involved in things that affect all of us.
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Over the years my mother’s steadfast faith in God has inspired me, particularly when I had to perform extremely difficult surgical procedures or when I found myself faced with my own medical scare.
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Don’t let anyone turn you into a slave.
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We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.
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People all over the nation are starved for honesty and common sense.
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You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going to happen in your life. Do everything you can – prepare, pray and achieve – to make it happen.
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We need to find ways to elevate the expectations, particularly of those individuals who may start off on a lower socioeconomic rung, who might be seen as disadvantaged. But, you know, the reason I say be seen as disadvantaged, it’s because life is so short, and there’s so much that can change.
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When I look at the human brain I’m still in awe of it.
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There is a tendency of people to try to make you believe only a few people are smart. As a brain surgeon, I know better than that.
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I’m not a politician. I don’t want to be a politician, because politicians do what is politically expedient. I want to do what’s right.
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I would like people to recognize in looking at my story that the person who has the most to do with what happens to you is you. It’s not the environment, it’s not the other people who were there trying to help you or trying to stop you. It’s what you decide to do and how much effort you put behind it.
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It’s very important for people to know themselves and understand what their value system is, because if you don’t know what your value system is, then you don’t know what risks are worth taking and which ones are worth avoiding.
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You’re a slave if you let the media tell you that sports and entertainment are more important than developing your brain.
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My favorite subject was recess. Fortunately for me, I had a mother who believed I was smart.
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The most important thing for me is having a relationship with God. To know that the owner, the creator of the universe loves you, sent His Son to die for your sins; that’s very empowering. Knowing Him and knowing that He loves me gives me encouragement and confidence to move forward.
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I believe that things are always going to work out, even if in the beginning it doesn’t look like they are working out. I know in the long run they are going to work out, and it’s going to be fine.
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There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everybody go along to get along, but that’s not going to be very helpful for us in the long run, in terms of solving our problems. And somebody has to be courageous enough to actually stand up to, you know, the bullies.
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I detest politics, to be honest with you. It’s a cesspool. And I don’t think I would fare well in that cesspool because I don’t believe in political correctness and I certainly don’t believe in dishonesty.
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So after a while, if people won’t accept your excuses, you stop looking for them.
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If God thinks proportionality is fair who are we to say that it is unfair?
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I serve God, and my purpose is to please Him, and if God be for you, who can be against you?
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Health care is one-sixth of our economy. If the government can control that, they can control just about everything. We need to understand what is going on, because there are much more economic models that can be used to give us good health care than what we have now.
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Economics is not brain surgery.
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Our children need to see and hear about more black role models in many fields so they can make better choices.
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The fact that our government is using instruments of government like the IRS to punish its opponents, this is not the kind of thing that is a Democrat or a Republican issue. This is an American issue… A lot of people do not feel free to express themselves.
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