Ideas Quote by John Hughlings Jackson

It takes approximately forty years for innovative thought to be incorporated into mainstream thought. I expect and hope that orthomolecular medicine, within the next…

— Abram Hoffer

What hope is there for medical scienceto ever become a true sciencewhen the entire structure of medical knowledgeis built around the idea that there…

— John Henry Tilden

“The art of medicine is long, Hippocrates tells us, "and life is short; opportunity fleeting; the experiment perilous; judgment flawed.”

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

Our great struggle in medicine these days is not just with ignorance and uncertainty. It's also with complexity: how much you have to make…

— Atul Gawande

We look for medicine to be an orderly field of knowledge and procedure. But it is not. It is an imperfect science, an enterprise…

— Atul Gawande

Medical science is adding years to our lives, but it is up to us to add life to our years.

— Vikrant Parsai

I think that the practice of medicine, the science of it, has become 50% pharmacological, so that doctors are like walking pharmacies.

— Caroline Myss

Medicine is a very old joke, but it still goes on.

— Andre Maurois

“For, medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to our aid,…

— Marcel Proust

I think that in the 21st century, medical biology will advance at a more rapid pace than before.

— Shinya Yamanaka

Modern medicine is not scientific, it is full of prejudice, illogic and susceptible to advertising. Doctors are not taught to reason, they are programmed…

— Abram Hoffer

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

— John Steinbeck