Character Quote by Gerald F. Lieberman

“The medical profession is unconsciously irritated by lay knowledge.”

— John Steinbeck

“EVERY PROFESSION HAS ITS PITFALLS. Doctors, for example, are always being asked for free medical advice, lawyers are asked for legal information, morticians are…

— Anonymous

Now of the difficulties bound up with the public in which we doctors work, I hesitate to speak in a mixed audience. Common sense…

— William Osler

“This is the one chance to learn about other things than medicine. Medicine is the art of observation and interpretation, which are skills that…

— David B. Agus

Doctors are human; they make mistakes, and you have to stay on top of them. You have to ask the second question, the third…

— Robby Benson

All knowledge attains its ethical value and its human significance only by the human sense with which it is employed. Only a good man…

— Hermann Nothnagel

The medical profession is - and knows itself to be - endemically conservative and conformist.

— Margaret Heffernan

The less experienced a doctor is, the higher are his notions of professional dignity . . .

— Arthur Conan Doyle

The physician who knows only medicine, knows not even medicine.

— Mark Twain

Medicine is not merely a science but an art. The character of the physician may act more powerfully upon the patient than the drugs…

— Paracelsus

The medical profession (is) a conspiracy to hide its own shortcomings. No doubt the same may be said of all professions. They are all…

— George Bernard Shaw

We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the…

— Abraham Verghese