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> [Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcia-angell/alternative-medicine-plays-into-this-exaggerated-notion-that-you-can/)

[Marcia Angell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcia-angell/)

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> [You see that the people who are drawn to alternative medicine are often fairly healthy and they go to alternative medicine for what I call the 'symptoms of life.' Fatigue, joint pains, inability to concentrate, perhaps, the kinds of things…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcia-angell/you-see-that-the-people-who-are-drawn-to-alternative-medicine-are/)

[Marcia Angell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcia-angell/)

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## More by Marcia Angell

> [Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcia-angell/alternative-medicine-plays-into-this-exaggerated-notion-that-you-can/)

[Marcia Angell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcia-angell/)

> [I do think that we are an overmedicated society.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcia-angell/i-do-think-that-we-are-an-overmedicated-society/)

[Marcia Angell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcia-angell/)

> [There's a certain libertarian right-wing view that there should be no FDA, that people can decide for themselves whether medicines are safe and effective.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcia-angell/there-s-a-certain-libertarian-right-wing-view-that-there-should-be-no/)

[Marcia Angell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcia-angell/)

> [For all of life's discontents, according to the pharmaceutical industry, there is a drug and you should take it. Then for the side effects…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcia-angell/for-all-of-life-s-discontents-according-to-the-pharmaceutical/)

[Marcia Angell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcia-angell/)

> [When death is imminent and dying patients find their suffering unbearable, then the physician's role should shift from healing to relieving suffering in accord…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcia-angell/when-death-is-imminent-and-dying-patients-find-their-suffering/)

[Marcia Angell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcia-angell/)

> [In economic terms, health care is a highly successful industry - profitable, growing, and virtually recession-proof - but it's a massive burden on the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcia-angell/in-economic-terms-health-care-is-a-highly-successful-industry/)

[Marcia Angell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcia-angell/)

> [Obamacare is simply incapable of doing what it is supposed to do - provide nearly universal care at an affordable and sustainable cost.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcia-angell/obamacare-is-simply-incapable-of-doing-what-it-is-supposed-to-do/)

[Marcia Angell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcia-angell/)

> [Pharmaceutical companies have too much influence over the education of physicians in this country. They have too much control over the evaluation of their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcia-angell/pharmaceutical-companies-have-too-much-influence-over-the-education/)

[Marcia Angell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcia-angell/)

> [The pharmaceutical industry isn't the only place where there's waste and inefficiency and profiteering. That happens in much of the rest of the health…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcia-angell/the-pharmaceutical-industry-isn-t-the-only-place-where-there-s-waste/)

[Marcia Angell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcia-angell/)

> [ The use of psychoactive drugs - including both antidepressants and antipsychotics - has exploded...\[yet\] 'the tally of those who are disabled...increased nearly two and… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcia-angell/the-use-of-psychoactive-drugs-including-both-antidepressants-and/)

[Marcia Angell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcia-angell/)

> [Drug companies say they need to charge ever-higher prices to cover their research costs, but they spend far less on research and development than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcia-angell/drug-companies-say-they-need-to-charge-ever-higher-prices-to-cover/)

[Marcia Angell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcia-angell/)

> [It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcia-angell/it-is-simply-no-longer-possible-to-believe-much-of-the-clinical/)

[Marcia Angell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcia-angell/)

> [It is time for the scientific community to stop giving alternative medicine a free ride There cannot be two kinds of medicine — conventional…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcia-angell/it-is-time-for-the-scientific-community-to-stop-giving-alternative/)

[Marcia Angell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcia-angell/)

> [There is something so biologically implausible that your attitude is going to cure a disease. There's a tremendous arrogance to imagine that your mind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcia-angell/there-is-something-so-biologically-implausible-that-your-attitude-is/)

[Marcia Angell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcia-angell/)

> [Why should anyone - the state, the medical profession, or anyone else - presume to tell someone else how much suffering they must endure…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcia-angell/why-should-anyone-the-state-the-medical-profession-or-anyone-else/)

[Marcia Angell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcia-angell/)

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