Lost Quote by Dominic Cummings

Modern medicine is not scientific, it is full of prejudice, illogic and susceptible to advertising. Doctors are not taught to reason, they are programmed…

— Abram Hoffer

“Time and time again, throughout the history of medical practice, what was once considered as "scientific" eventually becomes regarded as "bad practice".”

— David Stewart

A patient had a 50-50 chance of benefiting from visiting a physician as of 1910. Medicine was more like voodoo than science until the…

— Abraham Flexner

The politics have always been difficult in medicine. There is some truth in the way medical practice is portrayed in TV dramas.

— Barry Marshall

“Medicine is not a science; it is empiricism founded on a network of blunders.”

— Emmet Densmore

I do not ... reject the use of statistics in medicine, but I condemn not trying to get beyond them and believing in statistics…

— Claude Bernard

The writings and the recommendations of the earliest medical scientists and the new breed of clinicians between the mid-fifteenth and early seventeenth centuries were…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

Medicine is a science which hath been (as we have said) more professed than laboured, and yet more laboured than advanced: the labour having…

— Francis Bacon

“There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance. —HIPPOCRATES, ANCIENT GREEK FOUNDER OF THE SCIENCE OF…

— Nat Greene

As I've met clinicians in my travels, time after time I've been inspired to hear why people went into medicine: to apply their way-above-average…

— Dave deBronkart

Now, if doctors were aware that medicine was not a science and that they were pulling what is undoubtedly the largest and most successful…

— Vernon Coleman

“There are more politics in modern medicine than in modern politics itself. Today's average physician deserves even less trust than today's average politician, as…

— Thomas E. Levy