Medicine Quote by Danielle Ofri

“The mistakes of doctors are innumerable. They err as a rule out of optimism as to the treatment, and pessimism as to the outcome.”

— Marcel Proust

If we are going to keep patients safe, then we have to make sure that doctors are able to learn from mistakes.

— Jeremy Hunt

“the line between what clinicians can do well and what they cannot do at all well is not obvious, and certainly not obvious to…

— Daniel Kahneman

“Doctors are great--as long as you don't need them.”

— Edward E. Rosenbaum

“When a doctor does go wrong, he is the first of criminals. He has the nerve and he has the knowledge.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“But why bother with diagnoses at all, if a diagnosis is but a restatement of the problem?”

— Maggie Nelson

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

— Jon Ronson

“The very fact that these doctors continuing to be doctors--highly successful ones--despite their errors and their accompanying assaults on their self-definion would itself be…

— Danielle Ofri

“For, medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to our aid…

— Marcel Proust

“doctors don’t think probabilities apply to their patients,”

— Michael Lewis

“When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“When the doctors came in a little while later saying they thought they knew my diagnosis, I was afraid to know.”

— Sarah Todd Hammer