Barbarous Quote by Thomas Graham

Always laugh when you can; it is cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence.

— Lord Byron

“The doctor’s aim is to do good, even to our enemies, so much more to our friends, and my profession forbids us to do…

— Richard Colgan

“For, medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to our aid…

— Marcel Proust

“Aside from all this, for several of the most important and enduring problems in medicine, we have no idea what the best treatment is,…

— Ben Goldacre

“For, medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to our aid,…

— Marcel Proust

“As pervasive as medicine has become in modern life, it remains mostly hidden and often misunderstood. We have taken it to be both more…

— Gawande Atul

“The mistakes of doctors are innumerable. They err as a rule out of optimism as to the treatment, and pessimism as to the outcome.”

— Marcel Proust

Nor yet be overeager in pursuit of any thing; for the mercurial too often happen to leave judgment behind them, and sometimes make work…

— William Penn

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“It seems that part of the moral constitution of a doctor is a commitment not to intend the death of a patient, and to…

— David Jeffrey

“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

The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding.

— Francis Bacon