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Medical Quotes by Atul Gawande
- At times, in medicine, you feel you are inside a colossal and impossibly complex machine whose gears will turn for you only according to their…
- We've created a multitrillion-dollar edifice for dispensing the medical equivalent of lottery tickets - and have only the rudiments of a system to prepare patients…
- I learned about a lot of things in medical school, but mortality wasn't one of them.
- Oliver Sacks remains my hero to this day. He was one of the first medical writers I read. The other was Lewis Thomas, who is…
- No one teaches you how to think about money in medical school or residency. Yet, from the moment you start practicing, you must think about…
More Medical Quotes
- All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are… — Isaac Asimov
- Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The greatest evil is physical pain. — Saint Augustine
- The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing… — Edward Bach
- When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much. — Enid Bagnold
- Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood… — Anita Baker
- Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise,… — Saint Basil
- People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures. — Martha Beck
- The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction. — Alfred Adler
- Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established. — Wendell Berry
- Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient. — Ambrose Bierce
- Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. — Erma Bombeck