1970s Quote by Mark Walport

One of the first things we teach medical students is to listen to the patient by taking a careful medical history. Ninety percent of…

— Anonymous

The writings and the recommendations of the earliest medical scientists and the new breed of clinicians between the mid-fifteenth and early seventeenth centuries were…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

If you care to be a master or to make a true success of your profession, the smallest detail of your work must be…

— David Murray Cowie

The history of medicine is the history of the unusual.

— Robert M. Fresco

I am not a physician, but I am deeply interested in diagnostic categories and have read extensively in the history of the subject.

— Siri Hustvedt

What you need to learn how to do is analyze situations and do differential diagnoses and understand the principle and the concepts rather than…

— Leroy Hood

“The establishment of medical studies in the university (as opposed to some other possible institutional home) created a linkage between medicine and other branches…

— David C. Lindberg

“Much of the education doctors get in their four years of medical school and subsequent years of apprenticeship training is focused on teaching this…

— Lisa Sanders

There is so much information on diagnostics and treatments - one person cannot possibly know everything. A good doctor is one who isn't afraid…

— Leana S. Wen

When you're trained in medicine and it's the '80s and you've got all this hi-tech stuff and this ability to diagnose everything, when you…

— Deborah Birx

The theory of medicine, therefore, presents what is useful in thought, but does not indicate how it is to be applied in practice-the mode…

— Avicenna

Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom. Let not your conceptions of disease come from words heard in the lecture…

— William Osler