Arguing Quote by Thomas Paine

“There’s a saying in medicine that no one is dead until they are warm and dead.”

— Sanjay Gupta

“Our responsibility, in medicine, is to deal with human beings as they are. People die only once.”

— Atul Gawande

'There's no need for fiction in medicine,' remarks Foster... 'for the facts will always beat anything you fancy.'

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“It is said that the dead are infinitely patient, although it is usually said by the living, and how would they know?”

— Lee Battersby

“You're dead and you have to accept it.”

— Alice Sebold

“The painful truth about life is not death but death while you are alive.”

— Santosh Kalwar

“I should be arguing vehemently with doctors, demanding results, I should be surrounded by people who are bleeding and screaming and shocking one another…

— Dan Chaon

“He realized the lesson was that science can take medicine only so far. Then it is helped tremendously if there is faith or belief…

— Noah Gordon

“A wise man apportions his beliefs to the evidence.”

— David Hume

“I’m now ‘Doctor’ to the patients and I have to cover my ignorance by waving my arms and looking grave.”

— Howard Florey

“If you believe only in facts and forget stories, your brain will live, but your heart will die.”

— Cassandra Clare

“Perhaps it is better to be a machine that does its duty than a flesh-and-blood person who will not, for a dead truth is…

— L. Frank Baum