Medicine Quote by Alastair Reynolds

“But physicians don’t really save lives, of course, we prolong them;”

— Robert Charles Wilson

“What had not changed, though, was the heroic spirit of responsibility amid blood and failure. This struck me as the true image of a…

— Paul Kalanithi

“Doctors possessed true power. They could salvage the unsalvageable; they could extend life and raise the level of comfort for those in their final…

— Glen Krisch

“Doctors are great--as long as you don't need them.”

— Edward E. Rosenbaum

“for it is precisely the humanity, affability, and brotherly compassion of a doctor which prove the most efficacious remedies for his patients.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The whole world is medicine'. We can learn from everything that happens to us.”

— Sarah Napthali

“She’s the bridge between the doctors and the people, and you can see the strain of balancing between those two worlds.”

— Gayle Forman

“Our responsibility, in medicine, is to deal with human beings as they are. People die only once.”

— Atul Gawande

“It is not only medicine that maintains well-being. Once we function competently, the world may pitch in.”

— Peter D. Kramer

“To say the truth, every physician, almost, hath his favourite disease, to which he ascribes all the victories obtained over human nature.”

— Henry Fielding

“a great doctor must have a huge heart and a distended aorta through which pumps a vast lake of compassion and human kindness.”

— Adam Kay

“To the world, it doesn’t matter that much. Until you remember that it means the world to the patient. One exact world, bright and…

— James Maskalyk