Gone Quote by Sheri Fink

There is one thing pleasantly unconfusing about medicine. The direction and the end are fixed and the patient never works backward.

— John Steinbeck

My opinion is, that more harm than good is done by physicians; and I am convinced, that, had I left my patients to nature,…

— Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland

“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

I think we are faced in medicine with the reality that we have to be willing to talk about our failures and think hard…

— Atul Gawande

We have to be very careful not to blame the patients. A lot of the conversation [around patient engagement] has been, how do we…

— Victor Montori

Without ducking responsibility, what's wrong with medicine today is that it is predicated on providing treatment, not on reducing suffering. Not on solving problems.

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

For me, I think that there's a lot missing from the recovery or the post-diagnosis side of treating patients. Once the diagnosis is made,…

— Susannah Cahalan

I think in our lifetime, that level of acceptance of "well, we couldn't do any better," won't be tolerated. We're going to start to…

— Dean Kamen

There is a certain clinical satisfaction in seeing just how bad things can get.

— Sylvia Plath

Let's not kid ourselves. Whatever we diagnose, most patients, if they don't die, get well by themselves. Our job is mainly to try to…

— Diane Frolov

It's too bad patient-centered care is not rocket science, because if it was, we would be really good at it.

— Laura Gilpin

Every patient you see is a lesson in much more than the malady from which he suffers.

— William Osler