Medicine Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle

“When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Among doctors, there are also criminals!”

— Ramona I

“Most doctors are prisoners of their education and shackled by their profession.”

— Richard Diaz

“The doctor who treats himself has a fool for a patient.”

— Sir William Osler

“An incompetent doctor practices, but a competent doctor performs.”

— Amit Kalantri

“He did not know, and perhaps this doctor did. And he could not take the chance of pitting his certain ignorance against this man's…

— John Steinbeck

“But at the most basic level, doctors need to be able to come forward with their errors and near-misses, otherwise we will never know…

— Danielle Ofri

“I’m now ‘Doctor’ to the patients and I have to cover my ignorance by waving my arms and looking grave.”

— Howard Florey

“I was going to kill that doctor when he shoved his finger up my ass but then I realized the possibilities of that substance.”

— Neal Stephenson

“We hung our heads, ashamed. It was, I suspected, not the first time that a patient had consoled a doctor about the ineffectuality of…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“The mistakes of doctors are innumerable. They err as a rule out of optimism as to the treatment, and pessimism as to the outcome.”

— Marcel Proust