Doctor Quotes by Marcia Angell

Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing.

— Marcia Angell

I do think that we are an overmedicated society.

— 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.…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Marcia Angell

Obamacare is simply incapable of doing what it is supposed to do - provide nearly universal care at an affordable and sustainable cost.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Marcia Angell

Why should anyone - the state, the medical profession, or anyone else - presume to tell someone else how much suffering they must endure…

— Marcia Angell