Abandoned Quote by David Eisenberg

“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

“According to Block, about two-thirds of patients are willing to undergo therapies they don’t want if that is what their loved ones want. The”

— Atul Gawande

I think in our lifetime, that level of acceptance of "well, we couldn't do any better," won't be tolerated. We're going to start to…

— Dean Kamen

Most medical personnel remain largely unfamiliar with non-medical treatments, and tend to dismiss them without knowing about what they're dismissing. This is a great…

— Andrew Saul

It is time for the scientific community to stop giving alternative medicine a free ride There cannot be two kinds of medicine — conventional…

— Marcia Angell

“You can blindly accept the current medical treatment as prescribed by your doctor, or you can question it and develop a better treatment yourself.”

— Steven Magee

“Aside from all this, for several of the most important and enduring problems in medicine, we have no idea what the best treatment is,…

— Ben Goldacre

Amazingly, 85 percent of prescribed standard medical treatments across the board lack scientific validation, according to the New York Times. Richard Smith, editor of…

— Kenny Ausubel

Curious patients are more receptive to new ideas, and those who engage their health practitioners in a dialogue are much more likely to adhere…

— Dean Ornish

“even received a few requests that I send medicine, since none was available in the local pharmacies—an admission, unthinkable a few years ago, that…

— Theodore Dalrymple

It's unreasonable to expect medical doctors and pharmaceutical companies to tell you how to avoid their services by trying the alternatives.

— Andrew Saul

The notion that only those who preach the gospel of integrated medicine are able to perform the art of medicine is as ridiculous as…

— Edzard Ernst