Ability Quote by Anna Quindlen

“Psychologically, nothing is darker or more menacing, or harder to accept, than the participation of physicians in mass murder. However technicized or commercial the…

— Robert Jay Lifton

Doctors think a lot of patients are cured who have simply quit in disgust.

— Herbert Hoover

“doctors, for years, had opted for a treatment that systematically killed patients”

— Michael Lewis

The idea of infection began to be taken far more seriously than it ever had before. Hospitals transformed themselves in response to the new…

— Peter Lewis Allen

In these days before antiseptics, doctors themselves also suffered high mortality rates. Florence Nightingale, a nurse during the Crimean War (1853-1856), watched one particularly…

— Sam Kean

My brief stay at the hospital had already convinced me that the medical profession was an open door to anyone nursing a grudge against…

— J. G. Ballard

“All medical men are voyeurs. Why else would they become doctors? Except for the sadists, of course, who simply enjoy the blood and the…

— Joan D. Vinge

There are enough doctors on the planet so that nobody has to die for lack of care,

— Fidel Castro

“After many years of using the medical profession, I concluded that it is infested with blatant incompetence.”

— Steven Magee

Today [people] are ready to take emergency cures, whatever they are, if it's violence, if it's a fascination with serial killing or whatever -…

— Leonard Cohen

“Everything I thought I understood about disease research, drug development, and the delivery of clinical care has been turned on its head. This isn’t…

— Mary Dimmock

“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