Alas Quote by Pliny the Elder

We don't classify all doctors as incompetent because of the infrequent instances of medical malpractice. We don't use the example of one bad teacher…

— Thom Tillis

“An incompetent doctor practices, but a competent doctor performs.”

— Amit Kalantri

When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

The punishment should fit the crime and if a doctor or drug company does harm knowingly or negligently to a patient they should be…

— Corrine Brown

Only the doctor and the judge have the right to inflict the death penalty without receiving the same.

— Philemon

“After many years of using the medical profession, I concluded that it is infested with blatant incompetence.”

— Steven Magee

If a patient wants to live, doctors are impotent.

— Faina Ranevskaya

There is this peculiar blind spot in the culture of academic medicine around whether withholding trial results is research misconduct. People who work in…

— Ben Goldacre

“The important question isn't how to keep bad physicians from harming patient; it's how to keep good physicians from harming patients. Medical malpractice suits…

— Atul Gawande

In-house bodies of lawyers i.e. the Bar Council, and of doctors i.e. the Medical Council have notoriously failed to seek accountability of lawyers and…

— Prashant Bhushan

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

— Anonymous

The doctor who willingly accepts destroying life will have no grounds on which to object if the state should compel that doctor to destroy…

— Mildred Fay Jefferson