Medicine Quote by David B. Agus

“Ignore ignorance? You might as well withhold medicine from a very sick patient. Not only will the patient get worse, the disease will spread.”

— Stifyn Emrys

“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

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

— Seneca

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

— Ovid

Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing.

— Marcia Angell

Doctors will prescribe medicines for a particular disease but, as a side effect, those medications will work to prevent dozens of others.

— David Andrew Sinclair

My opinion is, that more harm than good is done by physicians; and I am convinced, that, had I left my patients to nature,…

— Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland

“The majority of prescription medications that the doctors gave me degraded my health instead of improving it.”

— Steven Magee

“Everything I thought I understood about disease research, drug development, and the delivery of clinical care has been turned on its head. This isn’t…

— Mary Dimmock

“It is important for Americans to recognize that, despite all of the fancy gimmicks and perceived power of modern medicine, the largest explosion of…

— Charles C Harpe

The medicine increases the disease.

— Virgil

“Sometimes the walk to the doctors is a better cure than the medicine you receive”

— Benny Bellamacina