Gerhard Kocher Quotes

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

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

Bad people are less a problem than indifferent people.

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

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

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

Life is a loss of time.

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

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

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

How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

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

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

Medicine knows no limits, especially not its own.

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

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

Many of us will die for science without knowing it.

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

Soft data, hard conflicts.

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

Is my dentist not bound by the Geneva Convention?

Don't tell my parents that I work in the pharmaceutical industry.

They think I am working in a brothel.

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

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

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

Never ask a surgeon whether you need an operation.

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

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

Pharma industry is the art of making billions from milligrams.