Execution Quote by Mark Twain

I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation

— Taylor Caldwell

If medicine was practiced in 1965 the way it's practiced today, there's no question that prescriptions would have been included in Medicare.

— John Podesta

The 'drugs or surgery only approach that modern medicine uses to treat today's diseases is archaic.

— Julian Whitaker

“Arguably the greatest technological triumph of the century has been the public-health system, which is sophisticated preventive and investigative medicine organized around mostly low-…

— Richard Rhodes

If there's one operation for a disease, you know it works. If there are 15 operations, you know that none of them work.

— Sherwin B. Nuland

It takes 50 years to get a wrong idea out of medicine, and 100 years a right one into medicine.

— John Hughlings Jackson

We cannot sacrifice innocent human life now for vague and exaggerated promises of medical treatments thirty of forty years from now. There are ways…

— Ernest Istook

Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“doctors, for years, had opted for a treatment that systematically killed patients”

— Michael Lewis

“If doctors practiced medicine the way many companies practice management, there would be far more sick and dead patients, and many more doctors would…

— Jeffrey Pfeffer

The exit from medicine happened steadily, rather than suddenly.

— Paul Sinha

the late twentieth century will go down in history, i'm sure, as an era of pharmaceutical buffoonery.

— Kurt Vonnegut