Degradation Quote by Alice James

I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

— Alice James

“One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.”

— Alice James

The less experienced a doctor is, the higher are his notions of professional dignity . . .

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Doctors are human; they make mistakes, and you have to stay on top of them. You have to ask the second question, the third…

— Robby Benson

Live interviews are more difficult to distort.

— Bianca Jagger

I believe that attributing flaws to medical characters makes them not just doctors but something more. It makes them people.

— Jed Mercurio

Most people don't have the advantage of being able to evaluate their doctor in advance.

— Kay Redfield Jamison

Good physicians are rarely dispassionate. They agonize and self-doubt over patients.

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

If people understood that doctors weren't divine, perhaps the odor of malpractice might diminish.

— Richard Selzer

Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure…

— Charles Caleb Colton

There is a great difference between a good physician and a bad one; yet very little between a good one and none at all.

— Arthur Young

There is a certain clinical satisfaction in seeing just how bad things can get.

— Sylvia Plath