Conformist Quote by Margaret Heffernan

“The medical profession is justly conservative.”

— Sigmund Freud

The American doctor possesses a combination of conservatism and... an eagerness to know what it is really all about, in order that he may…

— Elizabeth Kenny

Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale. Medicine, as a social science, as the science…

— Rudolf Virchow

I actually consider myself as totally privileged to be able to serve science and medicine in a global fashion, because science and medicine know…

— Magdi Yacoub

Medicine people are truly citizens of two worlds, and those who continue to walk the path of medicine power learn to keep their balance…

— Paula Gunn Allen

Regimen is superior to medicine, especially as, from time immemorial, out of every hundred physicians, ninety-eight are charlatans

— Voltaire

The medical profession (is) a conspiracy to hide its own shortcomings. No doubt the same may be said of all professions. They are all…

— George Bernard Shaw

Expertise is the mantra of modern medicine.

— Atul Gawande

“On the Training of Doctors is dedicated to everyone in the world that defies conventions. It is dedicated to those that take the chance…

— Beverly L. Anderson

Conscientious and careful physicians allocate causes of disease to natural laws, while the ablest scientists go back to medicine for their first principles.

— Aristotle

“We have to understand that medicine is not simply a science. It's much more than that. It's also an ideology. It's a way of…

— Gabor Maté

I think that the general public understands that its own doctors are human, fallible, and flawed.

— Jed Mercurio