Medicine Quote by Charles M. Fox

“As the Readers’s Digest once said: ‘Many persons call a doctor when all they want is an audience.”

— Dale Carnegie

“Doctors, however, are just as vulnerable to marketing tactics as the rest of us; companies merely use different methods to seduce them.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“It is a ridiculous word, reminiscent of the pseudo-science of those doctors, and it is a measure of the triumph of marketing that this…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“If you are confronted with the old advertisements interspersed throughout the medical text, you realise that the medical profession shamefully endorsed products that did…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“It is strange, and perhaps sad, that medical doctors came up with this terminology when they are charged with first doing no harm.”

— Roxane Gay

I think legislation needs to put an end to doctors profiting on businesses to which they can funnel patients - that is business, not…

— Abraham Verghese

Doctors are not servants of their patients, they are traders like everyone else in a free society and they should bear that title proudly…

— Ayn Rand

“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

But what physician has not had patients who don't make any sense at all? To tell the truth, they're our stock-in-trade. We talk and…

— Walker Percy

“Doctors give drugs of which they know little, into bodies, of which they know less, for diseases of which they know nothing at all.”

— Sarah Ballantyne

Medicine is for the patient. Medicine is for the people. It is not for the profits.

— George W. Merck

“... omniscience about life and death is not within a physician's purview. A doctor should never write off a person a priori.”

— Anonymous