Blood pressure Quote by Tadashi Yoshimura

Go back to the '30s, '40s, '50s, and it was the discovery of heroic interventions, the ability to cure people with penicillin or do…

— Atul Gawande

Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organised to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people…

— Ivan Illich

Modern medicine is not scientific, it is full of prejudice, illogic and susceptible to advertising. Doctors are not taught to reason, they are programmed…

— Abram Hoffer

“It is important for Americans to recognize that, despite all of the fancy gimmicks and perceived power of modern medicine, the largest explosion of…

— Charles C Harpe

“You don't like the way the study of an expensive drug for blood pressure is going? A nonissue - just stop the study before…

— John Abramson

I'm a strong believer in modern medicine. I think it has its use in society. I think it adds longevity to our life expectancy.

— Rob Van Dam

(Doctors) collectively have done more to block adequate medical care for people of this country than any other single group.

— Jimmy Carter

“We need to needlessly treat hundreds of people with a mild hypertension to prevent a single death. Since not all people with hypertension die…

— Dr. Robert A. Hitlin

I am not against all forms of high-tech medicine. Drugs and surgeries have a secure place in the treatment of serious health conditions. But…

— Andrew Weil

A few drugs - such as beta-blockers, statins and glycogen control medications - have proved very effective at managing hypertension, heart disease, diabetes and…

— Sendhil Mullainathan

Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Until the 20th century, medicine was more like politics than physics. Its forecasts were often bogus and its record grim. In the 1920s, statisticians…

— Dominic Cummings