Dispassionate Quote by Siddhartha Mukherjee

There is a great difference between a good physician and a bad one; yet very little between a good one and none at all.

— Arthur Young

I think people need to be comfortable questioning the authority of a doctor.

— Susannah Cahalan

The physician, to the extent he is a physician, considers only the good of the patient in what he prescribes, and his own not…

— Plato

But what physician has not had patients who don't make any sense at all? To tell the truth, they're our stock-in-trade. We talk and…

— Walker Percy

Doctors are just people and they can make mistakes.

— Limmy

Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.

— Hippocrates

It is so hard that one cannot really have confidence in doctors and yet cannot do without them.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they…

— John Berger

Doctors are human; they make mistakes, and you have to stay on top of them. You have to ask the second question, the third…

— Robby Benson

There is a clear matter that I am not a practicing physician; I have never been a practitioner; everybody has known for decades.

— Robert Jarvik

Most of us take it for granted that the person performing our radiologic procedures is a competent professional. But the fact is, poorly trained…

— Charles W Pickering

Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure…

— Charles Caleb Colton