20th century Quote by Abraham Flexner

Until the 20th century, medicine was more like politics than physics. Its forecasts were often bogus and its record grim. In the 1920s, statisticians…

— Dominic Cummings

As I've met clinicians in my travels, time after time I've been inspired to hear why people went into medicine: to apply their way-above-average…

— Dave deBronkart

Medicine is not merely a science but an art. The character of the physician may act more powerfully upon the patient than the drugs…

— Paracelsus

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

— William Osler

I had the privilege of practicing medicine in the early '60s, before we had any government. It worked rather well, and there was nobody…

— Ron Paul

“Where there were once several competing approaches to medicine, there is now only one that matters to most hospitals, insurers, and the vast majority…

— Thomas Hager

“Next day, after lunch, I went to see "our" doctor, a friendly fellow whose perfect bedside manner and complete reliance on a few patented…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“The art of medicine is long, Hippocrates tells us, "and life is short; opportunity fleeting; the experiment perilous; judgment flawed.”

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

I think that the practice of medicine, the science of it, has become 50% pharmacological, so that doctors are like walking pharmacies.

— Caroline Myss

“If doctors practiced medicine the way many companies practice management, there would be far more sick and dead patients, and many more doctors would…

— Jeffrey Pfeffer

“Well,” he said, “the downside of having no barriers between doctors and patients was that everyone became a patient.” There”

— Jon Ronson

In the early 19th to the early 20th century, people had a lot of things wrong with them. Doctors didn't know how to fix…

— H. W. Brands