Atlanta Quote by Lewis Thomas

Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organised to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people…

— Ivan Illich

We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service…

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

We profess to teach the principles and practice of medicine, or, in other words, the science and art of medicine. Science is knowledge reduced…

— Samuel Wilks

The only places where American medicine can fully live up to its possibilities are the teaching hospitals.

— Bernard DeVoto

Expertise is the mantra of modern medicine.

— Atul Gawande

Science may not be as intimate as the medical profession; nonetheless, it certainly is a community in which ideas are often shared as contributions,…

— Lewis Hyde

“Time and time again, throughout the history of medical practice, what was once considered as "scientific" eventually becomes regarded as "bad practice".”

— David Stewart

I'm the daughter of two Indian immigrant doctors, and I have an older sister and younger brother, and none of us have pursued medicine…

— Aarti Mann

But we need a medical community that's trained and knowledgeable and working on advancement.

— Michelle Obama

As I've met clinicians in my travels, time after time I've been inspired to hear why people went into medicine: to apply their way-above-average…

— Dave deBronkart

Medicine is incredibly ritualistic.

— Eric Topol

Medicine would be the ideal profession if it did not involve giving pain.

— Samuel Hopkins Adams