First things Quote by Jacqueline Novogratz

“Progress in medicine together with improved living conditions has therefore, it is argued, totally transformed the very essence of capital.”

— Thomas Piketty

There is one thing pleasantly unconfusing about medicine. The direction and the end are fixed and the patient never works backward.

— John Steinbeck

If not for the success that medicine has made, I might be part of a much different story right now.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I've seen so many patients, particularly elderly patients, over the years who become debilitated and changed by the process by which I cure them…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

It's too bad patient-centered care is not rocket science, because if it was, we would be really good at it.

— Laura Gilpin

Modern medicine has created more co-dependents even than co-pays. We've learned to hold out for a magic bullet such as a new miracle drug,…

— Andrew Saul

Many patients imagine that they have tried everything. True, they have used many remedies, but they have never had the cause of their infirmity…

— Daniel D. Palmer

Throughout my career, as both a physician and a scientist, I have drawn inspiration from Merck's unwavering commitment to scientific excellence. Over time, this…

— Roger M. Perlmutter

When you have giant corporations that give you a one track message of "finding a cure" or of "hope" it can give the public…

— Ravida Din

“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

I have a lot of optimism about new doctors because I think it's really clear that it's a lot of hard work and no…

— Anna Deavere Smith

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

— Ovid