As I say—it’s not the plague. It’s this new illness. They…

The idea of infection began to be taken far more seriously than it ever had before. Hospitals transformed themselves in response to the new…

— Peter Lewis Allen

Before we can wave the handkerchief, we have to have a cold.

— Robert D Dangoor

My parents are so supportive of whatever we want to do and completely nurtured that, and they're so proud of that as well. My…

— Hannah John-Kamen

Thankfully, I found a doctor at Presbyterian Hospital in New York, Scott Hammer, who diagnosed my chronic fatigue as the Epstein-Barr virus, and the…

— Tucker Halpern

Heart surgeons do not have the world's smallest egos: when you ask them to name the world's three leading practitioners, they never can remember…

— Sara Paretsky

I've never bought this idea of taking a therapeutic distance. If I see a student or house staff cry, I take great faith in…

— Abraham Verghese

“old-fashioned, gentle Scottish physician, unmoved by the considerations of profit and personal gain that could so disfigure medicine. That doctors should consider themselves businessmen…

— Alexander McCall Smith

The miracle drugs (neuroleptics) cause the worst plague of brain damage in medical history.

— Peter Breggin

We ought to observe that practice which is the hardest of all-especially for young physicians-we ought to throw in no medicine at all-to abstain-to…

— John Randolph of Roanoke

A creative space is an important thing. There are so many studios that feel like doctor's offices in Nashville. I couldn't write there.

— Brad Paisley

“As a special branch of general philosophy, pathogenesis had never been explored. In my opinion it had never been approached in a strictly scientific…

— Blaise Cendrars

Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside.

— Albert Schweitzer

The doctor who diagnosed me with ALS, or motor neuron disease, told me that it would kill me in two or three years.

— Stephen Hawking

I think people need to be comfortable questioning the authority of a doctor.

— Susannah Cahalan

Many patients imagine that they have tried everything. True, they have used many remedies, but they have never had the cause of their infirmity…

— Daniel D. Palmer