Loved ones Quote by Atul Gawande

Fewer than 40 percent of the alternative therapies are discussed with one's physician, In my personal view, the current status quo which could easily…

— David Eisenberg

I think in our lifetime, that level of acceptance of "well, we couldn't do any better," won't be tolerated. We're going to start to…

— Dean Kamen

“We want progress in medicine to be clear and unequivocal, but of course it rarely is. Every new treatment has gaping unknowns - for…

— Atul Gawande

“therapy and its medications are a luxury.”

— Marcella Serrano

“What is it about our human nature that we feel the need to defend the choices we’ve made when it comes to our medical…

— Suzanne Somers

“The FDA will accept a certain level of risk for a new treatment that is to be applied to a group of very sick…

— Jonathan Slack

“You can blindly accept the current medical treatment as prescribed by your doctor, or you can question it and develop a better treatment yourself.”

— Steven Magee

“The doctor always prescribes the approximate, for there aren't any set of perfect treatments for diseases.”

— Aporva Kala

When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.

— Pierre Corneille

“Which he said was the big lie they all bought that made doctors and standard therapy such a waste of time for people like…

— David Foster Wallace

“Many people, not least those people who come to therapy, convince themselves that there are alternative options to choose where none exist.”

— Ernesto Spinelli

“Well,” he said, “the downside of having no barriers between doctors and patients was that everyone became a patient.” There”

— Jon Ronson