To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
Nurse, it was I who discovered that leeches have red blood.[]On his deathbed when the nurse came to apply leeches
Theories that diseases are caused by mental states and can be cured by will power, are always an index of how much is not understood about the physical terrain of a disease.
Idiots, the lame, the blind, the dumb, are men in whom the devils have established themselves: and all the physicians who heal these infirmities, as though they proceeded from natural causes, are ignorant blockheads.
It wasn't the 'miracle of engineering' that is the human body that was filling me with a mad desire to live my days and nights in a pair of scrubs. The hard truth was I did not remotely want to be a surgeon. I actually just wanted to be on 'Grey's Anatomy.'
We tend to hold that popping medicine in our mouths and swallowing is the extent of our involvement in the healing process. We believe that if we get better, it's because the medicine worked magic, not the person.
Many doctors are stuck in the idea that addiction is a choice, and they don't treat that.
It is incident to physicians, I am afraid, beyond all other men, to mistake subsequence for consequence.
All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.
