Medicine Quote by Voltaire

Medicine is not merely a science but an art. The character of the physician may act more powerfully upon the patient than the drugs…

— Paracelsus

“The art of medicine is long, Hippocrates tells us, "and life is short; opportunity fleeting; the experiment perilous; judgment flawed.”

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“If doctors practiced medicine the way many companies practice management, there would be far more sick and dead patients, and many more doctors would…

— Jeffrey Pfeffer

“Psychologically, nothing is darker or more menacing, or harder to accept, than the participation of physicians in mass murder. However technicized or commercial the…

— Robert Jay Lifton

In the last century the practice of medicine has become no more than an adjunct to the pharmaceutical industry and the other aspects of…

— Vernon Coleman

It is found easier, by the short-sighted victims of disease, to palliate their torments by medicine, than to prevent them by regimen

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Every theory in medicine, if medicine is to remain healthy, must be beaten out on the anvil of skepticism. So do we weed out…

— Alice Tisdale Hobart

The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised…

— William Osler

The medical profession is - and knows itself to be - endemically conservative and conformist.

— Margaret Heffernan

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I think that the practice of medicine, the science of it, has become 50% pharmacological, so that doctors are like walking pharmacies.

— Caroline Myss

I do not deny that medicine is a gift of God, nor do I refuse to acknowledge science in the skill of many physicians;…

— Martin Luther