There is no alternative medicine. There is only medicine that works and medicine that doesn't work. —John Diamond More about this quote Tags: medicine Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: knowledge science habit information medicine Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email In medicine, as in statecraft and propaganda, words are sometimes the most powerful drugs we can use. —Sara Murray Jordan More about this quote Tags: politics words drugs medicine propaganda Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science. —Martin H. Fischer More about this quote Tags: empathy science medicine doctors bedside manner Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email 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 More about this quote Tags: drugs medicine doctors pharmaceuticals Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Financial ruin from medical bills is almost exclusively an American disease. —Roul Turley More about this quote Tags: disease America medicine Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: knowledge science habit information medicine Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In medicine, as in statecraft and propaganda, words are sometimes the most powerful drugs we can use. —Sara Murray Jordan More about this quote Tags: politics words drugs medicine propaganda Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science. —Martin H. Fischer More about this quote Tags: empathy science medicine doctors bedside manner Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: drugs medicine doctors pharmaceuticals Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Financial ruin from medical bills is almost exclusively an American disease. —Roul Turley More about this quote Tags: disease America medicine Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email