Ends Quote by John Steinbeck

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

— Ovid

The exit from medicine happened steadily, rather than suddenly.

— Paul Sinha

But we have gone so far in the direction of over treating terminal patients that we've failed to recognize when we're doing more harm…

— Sheri Fink

Medicine is so fascinating.

— Ellen Pompeo

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

— Caroline Myss

The worst thing about medicine is that one kind makes another necessary

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

Medicine is not merely a science but an art. The character of the physician may act more powerfully upon the patient than the drugs…

— Paracelsus

My opinion is, that more harm than good is done by physicians; and I am convinced, that, had I left my patients to nature,…

— Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland

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

“We want progress in medicine to be clear and unequivocal, but of course it rarely is. Every new treatment has gaping unknowns - for…

— Atul Gawande

Medicine is a jealous mistress. It demands all your time.

— Mehmet Oz