Ifs Quote by Laura Gilpin

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

— Laura Gilpin

Many medical students, like most American patients, confuse science and technology. They think that what it means to be a scientific doctor is to…

— Alice Dreger

Good applied science in medicine, as in physics, requires a high degree of certainty about the basic facts at hand, and especially about their…

— Lewis Thomas

I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity…

— Abraham Verghese

Many doctors are drawn to this profession (psychology) because they have an innate deficiency of insight into the motives, feelings and thoughts of others,…

— William S. Burroughs

Doctors are human animals. They want to be loved, they are tribal, they instinctually favor stories over scientific evidence, they make mistakes, and even…

— Alice Dreger

Patients know what patients want to know.

— Dave deBronkart

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

I have an obligation to use what I know to try to bring real, usable medical science to every doctor and bedside and patient.

— Patrick Soon-Shiong

But what physician has not had patients who don't make any sense at all? To tell the truth, they're our stock-in-trade. We talk and…

— Walker Percy

Physicians can't really dictate our protocols. They can inform us to the extent that they can as to what would best serve us, because…

— Maya Tiwari

Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.

— Aldous Huxley