Medical Quote by Richard Conniff

Nothing is known in our profession by guess; and I do not believe, that from the first dawn of medical science to the present…

— Astley Cooper

I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity…

— Abraham Verghese

We look for medicine to be an orderly field of knowledge and procedure. But it is not. It is an imperfect science, an enterprise…

— Atul Gawande

Some of the most profound realizations that I came to about health did not derive from medicine, but derived from surfing.

— Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz

“There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance. —HIPPOCRATES, ANCIENT GREEK FOUNDER OF THE SCIENCE OF…

— Nat Greene

After readinf some essay on the nature of human fallibility, I was very aware that we are the recipients of a huge amount of…

— Atul Gawande

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

“This is the one chance to learn about other things than medicine. Medicine is the art of observation and interpretation, which are skills that…

— David B. Agus

I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.

— Hippocrates

We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the…

— Abraham Verghese

Expertise is the mantra of modern medicine.

— Atul Gawande

As a child, I probably knew phrases that other children didn't known, like "pitocin drip" or "myocardial infarction." Some kind of knowledge was always…

— M. Night Shyamalan