More quotations tagged with “medicine”
We look for medicine to be an orderly field of knowledge and procedure. But it is not. It is an imperfect science, an enterprise of constantly changing knowledge, uncertain information, fallible individuals, and at the same time lives on the line. There is science in what we do, yes, but also habit, intuition, and sometimes plain old guessing. The gap between what we know and what we aim for persists. And this gap complicates everything we do.
—Atul Gawande
In medicine, as in statecraft and propaganda, words are sometimes the most powerful drugs we can use.
—Sara Murray Jordan
In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.
—Martin H. Fischer
The field of Western medicine has become literally nothing but medicine. Doctors are on their way out, to be replaced by self-serve pharmaceutical vending machines.
—Grey Livingston
Financial ruin from medical bills is almost exclusively an American disease.
—Roul Turley