Aids Quote by Marcel Proust

“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

“The mistakes of doctors are innumerable. They err as a rule out of optimism as to the treatment, and pessimism as to the outcome.”

— Marcel Proust

In summoning even the wisest of physicians to our aid, it is probably that he is relying upon a scientific "truth", the error of…

— Marcel Proust

The mistakes made by doctors are innumerable. They err habitually on the side of optimism as to treatment, of pessimism as to the outcome.

— Samuel Butler

“The very fact that these doctors continuing to be doctors--highly successful ones--despite their errors and their accompanying assaults on their self-definion would itself be…

— Danielle Ofri

The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.

— Walter Lippmann

Doctors are just people and they can make mistakes.

— Limmy

“But at the most basic level, doctors need to be able to come forward with their errors and near-misses, otherwise we will never know…

— Danielle Ofri

“When a doctor does go wrong, he is the first of criminals. He has the nerve and he has the knowledge.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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

— David Stewart

“Medicine is not a science; it is empiricism founded on a network of blunders.”

— Emmet Densmore

“The most powerful and most deceptive medical lie of all, is that your doctor knows everything there is to know about your health, or…

— Ken D. Berry