Appearing Quote by George W. Merck

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

— George W. Merck

Medicine, as we are practising it, is a luxury trade. We are selling bread at the price of jewels... Let us take the profit,…

— Norman Bethune

Big Pharma needs sick people to prosper. Patients, not healthy people, are their customers. If everybody was cured of a particular illness or disease,…

— James Morcan

“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

Research is subordinated (not to a long-term social benefit) but to an immediate commercial profit. Currently, disease (not health) is one of the major…

— Pierre Bosquet

“We have to understand that medicine is not simply a science. It's much more than that. It's also an ideology. It's a way of…

— Gabor Maté

“Clearly our current form of medicine will bankrupt us and simultaneously keep the chemical industry the number one money-maker as physicians nurture a nation…

— Sherry Rogers

“The art of medicine is long, Hippocrates tells us, "and life is short; opportunity fleeting; the experiment perilous; judgment flawed.”

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

I believe that we not only feed the public demand for useless and harmful drugs, but also go far to create that very demand.…

— Richard Clarke Cabot

We have a fee-for-service system that rewards quantity, not quality: profit-driven care rather than patient-driven care. So doctors order more tests, more procedures, and…

— Matthew Heineman

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

— Ovid