Adopting Quote by S. Jay Olshansky

I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing…

— Christiaan Barnard

Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research

— Ike Skelton

Thousands upon thousands of persons have studied disease. Almost no one has studied health.

— Adelle Davis

Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in many ways, making it more impersonal,…

— Andrew Weil

Medicine today invests heavily in information technology, yet the promised improvement in patient safety and productivity frankly have not been realized,

— Peter Pronovost

It seems paradoxical that, as medical scientists make huge advances in discovering the mechanisms of common diseases, fewer and fewer innovative drugs are reaching…

— Mark Walport

Every educated physician knows that most diseases are not appreciably helped by medicine.

— Richard Clarke Cabot

Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.

— Aldous Huxley

“Arguably the greatest technological triumph of the century has been the public-health system, which is sophisticated preventive and investigative medicine organized around mostly low-…

— Richard Rhodes

After generations of living under medical tutelage, which provides us with protection (albeit illusory) against "dangerous drugs", we have failed to cultivate the self-reliance…

— Thomas Szasz

We have medicalized a lot of things that I think are not really medical conditions.

— Darold Treffert

The advanced members of the medical profession know that the health of society is not to be obtained or maintained by medicines; - that…

— Robert Owen