Best Quote by Peter Singer

Patient autonomy is paramount to the oath that we take when we enter the profession of medicine. That is why I am appalled when…

— Ami Bera

When I took the Hippocratic oath and was effectively 'sworn in' as a doctor, I took the same vow that doctors have taken for…

— Ami Bera

Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously, as an imperative to do everything for the patient regardless of the cost or effects on others

— Ezekiel Emanuel

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

Our profession is good, if practiced in the spirit of it; it is damnable fraud and iniquity when its true spirit is supplied by…

— Daniel Webster

The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes depend on them.

— George Eliot

“For patients to claim a right to any procedures they wish is to challenge a conscientious physician’s integrity as a physician.”

— Edmund D. Pellegrino

Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.

— George Herbert

Let no one suppose that the words doctor and patient can disguise from the parties the fact that they are employer and employee.

— George Bernard Shaw

“Professions can create forms of ethical conversation that are impossible between a lonely individual and a distant government. If members of professions think of…

— Timothy Snyder

Though moral axioms to guide the conduct of the practitioner have existed since the beginnings of the profession of healing, Western doctors are most…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

I think we'd be cutting off our hand to spite our face if we demonize private health care.

— Dido Harding