Believe Quote by William Osler

“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

“Hippocrates was so great that today’s doctors still take the Oath of Hippocrates (though it has been modified during the 20th century)”

— Terry Deary

“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

“There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance. —HIPPOCRATES, ANCIENT GREEK FOUNDER OF THE SCIENCE OF…

— Nat Greene

“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

A patient had a 50-50 chance of benefiting from visiting a physician as of 1910. Medicine was more like voodoo than science until the…

— Abraham Flexner

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

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

I think that the general public understands that its own doctors are human, fallible, and flawed.

— Jed Mercurio

“The doctors pushing the frontiers of human medicine had forgotten to account for the common cold.”

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

Though moral axioms to guide the conduct of the practitioner have existed since the beginnings of the profession of healing, Western doctors are most…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

There were never any doctors in my family. But my grandparents and my mother had a strong social conscience that was formative.

— Robert Winston