Acquire Quote by Ivan Illich

You know, 97 percent of the time, if you come into a hospital, everything goes well. But three percent of the time, we have…

— Atul Gawande

The estimated total number of iatrogenic deaths-that is, deaths induced inadvertently by a physician or surgeon or by medical treatment or diagnostic procedures in…

— Gary Null

Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.

— Molière

Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients

— Carl Levin

If a hundred or a thousand people, all of the same age, of the same constitution and habits, were suddenly seized by the same…

— Petrarch

The most experienced people around the world are the most ill-treated.

— Suma

Doctors...from the Office of Info. Tech. at Harvard U.(:)...Their appraisal of 46 surgical or anesthesia breakthroughs...suggested...only 13% were highly preferred (and)...in nearly half the…

— Jeffrey Bland

“...younger patients, known as 'Acutes' because the doctors figure them still sick enough to be fixed...”

— Ken Kesey

“A study funded by the National Institutes of Health showed a 23 percent decrease in mortality in people who meditated versus those who did not,”

— Arianna Huffington

This is the reality of intensive care: at any point, we are as apt to harm as we are to heal.

— Atul Gawande

Disease increases in proportion to the increase in the number of doctors in a place.

— Mahatma Gandhi

...The likelihood of treatment (of any one patient) increases with the length of time since the origin of the disease. ...Those cases in which…

— Hardin B. Jones