Medicine Quote by Michael Lewis Download Open image ““doctors, for years, had opted for a treatment that systematically killed patients”” — Michael Lewis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Medicine Patience
“In other words, our decision making in medicine has failed so spectacularly that we have reached the point of actively inflicting harm on patients… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
There's never been a doctor who served many patients who, despite their best efforts, did not lose some of them to death. But they… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
“It seems that part of the moral constitution of a doctor is a commitment not to intend the death of a patient, and to… — David Jeffrey Copy Share Image
“In other words, our decision making in medicine has failed so spectacularly that we have reached the point of actively inflicting harm on patients… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
“In quixotically trying to conquer death doctors all too frequently do no good for their patients’ “ease” but at the same time they do… — Jack Kevorkian Copy Share Image
“I felt pretty shitty when that lad died. The consultant took me aside and said that a cardiologist can’t expect to stop all his… — Benjamin Daniels Copy Share Image
Doctors have throughout time made fortunes on killing their patients with their cures. The difference in psychiatry is that it is the death of… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
“Everything I thought I understood about disease research, drug development, and the delivery of clinical care has been turned on its head. This isn’t… — Mary Dimmock Copy Share Image
“Tell me the manner in which a patient commits suicide and I'll tell you how he can be cured” — Luke Rhinehart Copy Share Image
“Medicine no doubt, has helped us a lot to cure so many diseases, but death still remains an incurable one!” — Mehek Bassi Copy Share Image
“Crucial decisions are made, today as thousands of years ago, in terms of the intuitive guesses and preferences of a few men in positions… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“You saw someone who reminded you of you, and then you looked for the reasons why you liked him. The” — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“At other places management says, ‘Well, gee, fellas, do we really want to bet the ranch on this deal?’ Lewie was not only willing… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“BILLY WOULD SAY later that his wife left him because she was unnerved by his intensity—that she could even see it in his hands… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“The great thing about baseball players, from the point of view of personal hygiene, is how seldom they break a sweat.” — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
There was but one question he left unasked, and it vibrated between his lines: if gross miscalculations of a person's value could occur on… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“The author refers to a player's affected nonchalance and comments he is, "too young to realize you are what you pretend to be.” — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
A banking system is an act of faith: it survives only for as long as people believe it will. — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
Some coaches believed they could judge a player's performance simply by watching it. In this they were deeply mistaken. The naked eye was an… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“No longer were the prices of ordinary mortgage bonds allowed to roam inefficiently, for they were now linked to the CMO market, in much… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“The difference between Strauss and Ranieri?” says one trader still at Salomon. “That’s easy. Strauss wouldn’t stoop to use the men’s room on the… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“The only inexplicable aspect of the process was that economic theory (which is, after all, what economics students were supposed to know) served almost… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
I think people need to be comfortable questioning the authority of a doctor. — Susannah Cahalan Copy Share Image
Tell the truth about your wound, and then you will get a truthful picture of the remedy to apply to it. Don't pack whatever… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
“the doctor hesitated before breaking the news to her. "those aren't stars. it's cancer." - forty years a smoker” — Amanda Lovelace Copy Share Image
Making sure that people have access to preventive medicine for the first time ever as a nation? That's a big deal. — Brad Schneider Copy Share Image
being asked to decide between your passion for work and your passion for children was like being asked by your doctor whether you preferred… — Helen Bevington Copy Share Image
We ought to observe that practice which is the hardest of all-especially for young physicians-we ought to throw in no medicine at all-to abstain-to… — John Randolph of Roanoke Copy Share Image
“old-fashioned, gentle Scottish physician, unmoved by the considerations of profit and personal gain that could so disfigure medicine. That doctors should consider themselves businessmen… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Do you think that was kind? Do you think it was godlike? What would you think of a physician, if a woman came to… — Helen H. Gardener Copy Share Image
The World Health Organisation has a lot of its medical experts sitting in Geneva while hospitals in Africa have no drugs and desperate patients… — Pauline Hanson Copy Share Image
Antidepressants are the biggest fraud in the world. Number one, Prozac gives you a royal soft-on like you wouldn't believe, and number two you… — Robert Evans Copy Share Image
“I intend to study love as well as medicine, for it is one of the most mysterious and remarkable diseases that afflict mankind, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image