Medicine Quote by Ian Harris

“Without the patient, there is no healthcare.”

— Christopher M. Giambruno

When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.

— Pierre Corneille

“Law XIII. THE DELIVERY OF MEDICAL CARE IS TO DO AS MUCH NOTHING AS POSSIBLE”

— Samuel Shem

I now turn down patients who want an operation but they will have very little gain from it.

— Terry Dubrow

The fact that some people are not as able to communicate concerns about their care must never mean that any less attention is paid…

— Luciana Berger

“When a surgeon refuses to operate on you because it’s dangerous and unethical, you have no options. Just 'Here’s one more permanent loss to…

— Michael Bihovsky

“Illness is no reason to separate the patient from society.”

— Madhu Ramnath

“Because doctors can’t name the illness, everyone—the patient's family, friends, health insurance, and in many cases the patient—comes to think of the patient as…

— Joseph Dumit

Illness and death are not optional. Patients have a right to determine how they approach them.

— Marcia Angell

“However, family and friends can be in a financial or emotional conflict of interest with the welfare of an incompetent patient.”

— Edmund D. Pellegrino

“You have the power to treat your own pain, and you can do it without surgery, drugs, or other invasive interventions.”

— Jed Diamond

“In all the medical dramas I’d ever seen, there was always some solution, some last-minute, miraculously undiscovered remedy. Nobody ever just gave up on…

— Morgan Matson