Alternative medicine Quote by Mehmet Oz

The claim of alternative practitioners to not treat disease labels but the whole patient...allows alternative practitioners to live in a fool's paradise of quackery…

— Edzard Ernst

Doctors always think anybody doing something they aren't is a quack; also they think all patients are idiots.

— Flannery O'Connor

Socially, in most groups I tempered my conversations on my approach to health because those who entrusted their lives to allopathic, 'standard of care'…

— Suzanne Somers

You know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work? - Medicine.

— Tim Minchin

There are some fantastic, brilliant alternative doctors out there.

— Hayley Mills

“Complementary or alternative medicine is really just unproven medicine. That’s not an unfair criticism; that’s just what it is. When an alternative medicine is…

— Guy P. Harrison

This is where the strength of the physician lies, be he a quack, a homeopath or an allopath. He supplies the perennial demand for…

— Leo Tolstoy

But what physician has not had patients who don't make any sense at all? To tell the truth, they're our stock-in-trade. We talk and…

— Walker Percy

Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing.

— Marcia Angell

A physician is nothing but a consoler of the mind.

— Petronius

There is a clear matter that I am not a practicing physician; I have never been a practitioner; everybody has known for decades.

— Robert Jarvik

There are plenty of quacks in the field. Fewer than you'd expect, though still plenty (in alternative medicine).

— John Bradshaw