Doctors Quote by Caroline Myss

In the last century the practice of medicine has become no more than an adjunct to the pharmaceutical industry and the other aspects of…

— Vernon Coleman

Medicine is not merely a science but an art. The character of the physician may act more powerfully upon the patient than the drugs…

— Paracelsus

Modern medicine is not scientific, it is full of prejudice, illogic and susceptible to advertising. Doctors are not taught to reason, they are programmed…

— Abram Hoffer

“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

The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised…

— William Osler

We look for medicine to be an orderly field of knowledge and procedure. But it is not. It is an imperfect science, an enterprise…

— Atul Gawande

I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity…

— Abraham Verghese

The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised…

— William Osler

It seems paradoxical that, as medical scientists make huge advances in discovering the mechanisms of common diseases, fewer and fewer innovative drugs are reaching…

— Mark Walport

The state of healthcare today is that we are busy in the practice of medicine vs. being in the science of medicine.

— Vinod Khosla

I agree, the world would be a better place if doctors were less enthusiastic about adopting very new drugs.

— Ben Goldacre

There is one thing pleasantly unconfusing about medicine. The direction and the end are fixed and the patient never works backward.

— John Steinbeck