American Quote by Alice Dreger

“Throughout medical school, residency, specialties, and subspecialties some feel we have allowed the science to overshadow the art.”

— Richard Colgan

The reason doctors are so dangerous is that they believe in what they are doing.

— Robert S. Mendelsohn

What patients want is not rocket science, which is really unfortunate because if it were rocket science, we would be doing it. We are…

— Laura Gilpin

“People confuse science and scientists. Science is great, but individual scientists are dangerous. They are human; they are marred by the biases humans have.…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Now in the 21st century, the boundaries separating chemistry, physics, and medicine have become blurred, and as happened during the Renaissance, scientists are following…

— Peter Agre

As a physician, I know many doctors want to utilize new technology, but they find the cost prohibitive.

— Nathan Deal

“this is a serious development for our medical training establishment is that a host of technological enablers will fuel the disruption of specialists by…

— Clayton M. Christensen

I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity…

— Abraham Verghese

Now, if doctors were aware that medicine was not a science and that they were pulling what is undoubtedly the largest and most successful…

— Vernon Coleman

Scientists, especially when they leave the particular field in which they are specialized, are just as ordinary, pig-headed, and unreasonable as everybody else, and…

— Hans Eysenck

We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the…

— Abraham Verghese

Doctors are human animals. They want to be loved, they are tribal, they instinctually favor stories over scientific evidence, they make mistakes, and even…

— Alice Dreger