Medicine Quote by Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing.

— Marcia Angell

“Betterment is perpetual labor. The world is chaotic, disorganized, and vexing, and medicine is nowhere spared that reality. To complicate matters, we in medicine…

— Atul Gawande

Medicine is not about conquering diseases and death, but about the alleviation of suffering, minimising harm, smoothing the painful journey of man to the…

— Petr Skrabanek

“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 physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it

— Anonymous

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

Some will not look on suffering because it creates responsibility.

— Fulton J. Sheen

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

When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.

— Pierre Corneille

Problems are cured by facing their cause.

— Vernon Howard

The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole... For the part can never be well unless…

— Plato

“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