Able Quote by Kay Redfield Jamison

Good physicians are rarely dispassionate. They agonize and self-doubt over patients.

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

I think people need to be comfortable questioning the authority of a doctor.

— Susannah Cahalan

Doctors are just people and they can make mistakes.

— Limmy

It's in poor taste to question anyone's illness diagnosed through specific testing by their doctor.

— Camille Grammer

Many people are intimidated by doctors. ... People also feel stupid when they don't understand what a doctor's talking about the first time around,…

— Erma Bombeck

There is so much information on diagnostics and treatments - one person cannot possibly know everything. A good doctor is one who isn't afraid…

— Leana S. Wen

“doctors don’t think probabilities apply to their patients,”

— Michael Lewis

Most medical personnel remain largely unfamiliar with non-medical treatments, and tend to dismiss them without knowing about what they're dismissing. This is a great…

— Andrew Saul

To make a coverage decision, doesn't one have to make a medical judgment?

— John Paul Stevens

“We EDS patients are accustomed to being doctors’ first cases of something in virtually every medical specialty. We’re just as used to being dismissed…

— Michael Bihovsky

It is unfair to say one doctor is better than the other based on a degree, especially because we are all trained together during…

— Mikhail Varshavski

When you walk into a doctor's office, you've got to have the same attitude you would about anything else. You've got to ask tough…

— Tom Brokaw