Medicine Quote by Ben Goldacre

“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

“In all the medical dramas I’d ever seen, there was always some solution, some last-minute, miraculously undiscovered remedy. Nobody ever just gave up on…

— Morgan Matson

The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it

— Hippocrates

While I am prepared to look at all options and to think 'outside the box' for effective treatments, I rightly resisted efforts to provide…

— Rick Bright

Expensive medicines are always good: if not for the patient, at least for the druggist

— Russian Proverb

Without ducking responsibility, what's wrong with medicine today is that it is predicated on providing treatment, not on reducing suffering. Not on solving problems.

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

“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

Cure the disease and kill the patient.

— Francis Bacon

“In other words, our decision making in medicine has failed so spectacularly that we have reached the point of actively inflicting harm on patients…

— Atul Gawande

“Nothing hinders a cure so much as frequent changes of treatment.”

— Seneca

“therapy and its medications are a luxury.”

— Marcella Serrano

It is time for the scientific community to stop giving alternative medicine a free ride There cannot be two kinds of medicine — conventional…

— Marcia Angell