“The doctors pushing the frontiers of human medicine had forgotten to account for the common cold.” — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
When you immerse yourself in medicine you realise that hope is not absolute. It's not that simple. — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Good physicians are rarely dispassionate. They agonize and self-doubt over patients. — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Could your medicine be a cell, not a pill? Could your medicine be an organ that's created outside the body? Could your… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“The art of medicine is long, Hippocrates tells us, "and life is short; opportunity fleeting; the experiment perilous; judgment flawed.” — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“We hung our heads, ashamed. It was, I suspected, not the first time that a patient had consoled a doctor about the… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
If the history of medicine is told through the stories of doctors, it is because their contributions stand in place of the… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“This was the tenth month of my "fellowship" in oncology - a two-year immersive medical program to train cancer specialists - and… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
I think the way we think about cancer, the way we treat cancer, has dramatically changed in the last century. There is… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Sandeep Jauhar’s Doctored is a passionate and necessary book that asks difficult questions about the future of medicine. The narrative is gripping,… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“Labs, too, can become machines. In science, it is more often a pejorative description than a complimentary one: an efficient, thrumming, technically… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“But the story of leukemia--the story of cancer--isn't the story of doctors who struggle and survive, moving from institution to another. It… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Most days, I go home and I feel rejuvenated. I feel ebullient. — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“A note of caution: epigenetics is also on the verge of transforming into a dangerous idea. Epigenetic modifications of genes can potentially superpose historical… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
When you immerse yourself in medicine you realise that hope is not absolute. It's not that simple. — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“I had a novice's hunger for history, but also a novice's inability to envision it.” — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“Any extrapolation of history into the future presupposes an environment of static discovery—an oxymoron.” — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“Six decades and two years, no more than a passing glance of time, separate Mendel's initial experiments on peas and the court-mandated sterilization of… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“We now know that cells have ancient detectors that recognize viral genes and stamp them with chemical marks, like cancellation signs, to prevent their… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“Familial schizophrenia (like normal human features such as intelligence and temperament) is thus highly heritable but only moderately inheritable. In other words, genes-hereditary determinants-are… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“If you prefer an “academic life” as a retreat from reality, do not go into biology. This field is for a man or woman… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“But the pigs--seventy pounds of porcine weight that did not take kindly to weekly endoscopies--did not sprout any ulcers. And testing the theory on… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“One of the four genes used by Yamanaka to reverse cellular fate is called c-myc. Myc, the rejuvenating factor, is no ordinary gene: it… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
A breast cancer might turn out to have a close resemblance to a gastric cancer. And this kind of reorganization of cancer in terms… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
