Soft data, hard conflicts.
—Gerhard Kocher
Topics: Information
There are two types of politicians: the ones that are courageous and honest, and the ones that have a steep career.
—Gerhard Kocher
Topics: Politics
After each stay in a hospital I live extremely healthy (sometimes up to five days!).
—Gerhard Kocher
Many of us will die for science without knowing it.
—Gerhard Kocher
Topics: Medicine
From year to year, it is more obvious: the goal of medicine is not health but the further extension of the health system.
—Gerhard Kocher
Topics: Medicine
Pharma industry is the art of making billions from milligrams.
—Gerhard Kocher
Topics: Drugs
Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?
—Gerhard Kocher
Topics: Death
You can’t treat a car like a patient. A car needs love.
—Gerhard Kocher
Topics: Medicine
The most frequent lie in a hospital: it won’t hurt.
—Gerhard Kocher
I am a staunch feminist, in spite of all women’s magazines.
—Gerhard Kocher
Topics: Women
Believe me – the Government will help you anytime it needs you.
—Gerhard Kocher
Topics: Government
The Silent majority is silent, and that is best for everybody.
—Gerhard Kocher
Topics: Democracy
Mankind has survived all catastrophes. It will also survive modern medicine.
—Gerhard Kocher
Topics: Medicine
Bad people are less a problem than indifferent people.
—Gerhard Kocher
Topics: Apathy
Is my dentist not bound by the Geneva Convention?
—Gerhard Kocher
Topics: Doctors
How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!
—Gerhard Kocher
Topics: Intelligence
The relation nurse/doctor is even more complex than the relation patient/doctor.
—Gerhard Kocher
Topics: Doctors
Medicine knows no limits, especially not its own.
—Gerhard Kocher
Topics: Medicine
War is the father of all things. But who is the mother?
—Gerhard Kocher
Topics: War
Never ask a surgeon whether you need an operation.
—Gerhard Kocher
Topics: Doctors
Ask not what the government can do for you. Ask why it doesn’t.
—Gerhard Kocher
Topics: Government
Do not forget: in medicine, there are more important things than life and death: dollars and cents.
—Gerhard Kocher
Topics: Medicine
In a hospital, half of the patients get better food than at home.
—Gerhard Kocher
A good health policy is based on three principles. Unfortunately, nobody knows them.
—Gerhard Kocher
Topics: Health
Don’t tell my parents that I work in the pharmaceutical industry. They think I am working in a brothel.
—Gerhard Kocher
Topics: Industry
The call for free markets would be more successful if it came from more sympathetic people.
—Gerhard Kocher
Topics: Capitalism
Nursing would be a dream job if there were no doctors.
—Gerhard Kocher
Topics: Doctors
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