Competent Quote by Hunter S. Thompson

Quacks are the greatest liars in the world except their patients.

— Benjamin Franklin

There are plenty of quacks in the field. Fewer than you'd expect, though still plenty (in alternative medicine).

— John Bradshaw

Doctors always think anybody doing something they aren't is a quack; also they think all patients are idiots.

— Flannery O'Connor

Quacks pretend to cure other men's disorders, but fail to find a remedy for their own.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Any physician who advertises a positive cure for any disease, who issues nostrum testimonials, who sells his services to a secret remedy, or who…

— Samuel Hopkins Adams

This is where the strength of the physician lies, be he a quack, a homeopath or an allopath. He supplies the perennial demand for…

— Leo Tolstoy

Good physicians are rarely dispassionate. They agonize and self-doubt over patients.

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

Physicians can't really dictate our protocols. They can inform us to the extent that they can as to what would best serve us, because…

— Maya Tiwari

Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure…

— Charles Caleb Colton

In medicine, it has long been recognized that even a quack remedy that is harmless in itself can be fatal when it substitutes for…

— Thomas Sowell

Most allopathic doctors think practitioners of alternative medicine are all quacks. They're not. Often they're sharp people who think differently about disease.

— Mehmet Oz

I used to wonder why people should be so fond of the company of their physician, till I recollected that he is the only…

— Hannah More