Medical Truth Quotes

'There's no need for fiction in medicine,' remarks Foster... 'for the facts will always beat anything you fancy.'

Autopsies give us the facts but not the truth.

I think we have to do everything that's useful. We're doctors. Our job is to tell the truth. And it doesn't have to be embellished in any way.

Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality.

Never lie to a child about doctors or medicine or anything else; but if you feel, as some people seem to feel, that life without lying is an impossibility, at least don't lie about the amount of pain likely to result from a surgical procedure, or about the taste of some medicine. If you know that something to be done will hurt, say so; if a mixture to be swallowed is unpleasant, say so. If you deceive a child once in such matters, do not imagine that it will trust you again. You do not deserve trust, and you will not get it.

The truth is, there is no link between vaccines and autism. Vaccines are incredibly important.

Truth in all its kinds is most difficult to win; and truth in medicine is the most difficult of all.

Did you know that there was a study in 1961 that found that 90 percent of physicians wouldn't tell you if you were diagnosed with cancer?

Compassionate doctors sometimes lie to patients about the severity of their condition, and it is not always wrong to do so.