We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.
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Ch. 2Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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The critical sense and sceptical attitude of the Hippocratic school laid the foundations of modern medicine on broad lines, and we owe to it: first, the emancipation of medicine from the shackles of priestcraft and of caste; secondly, the conception of medicine as an art based on accurate observation, and as a science, an integral part of the science of man and of nature; thirdly, the high moral ideals, expressed in that most "memorable of human documents" (Gomperz), the Hippocratic oath; and fourthly, the conception and realization of medicine as the profession of a cultivated gentleman.
William Osler
Do I worship modern medicine? Is science my religion? Not at all; there is no aspect of modern medicine or science that I would exempt from the most rigorous scrutiny, and I can readily identify a host of serious problems that still need to be fixed. That's easy to do, of course, because the worlds of medicine and science are already engaged in the most obsessive, intensive, and humble self-assessments yet known to human institutions, and they regularly make public the results of their self-examinations. Moreover, this open-ended rational criticism, imperfect as it is, is the secret of the astounding success of these human enterprises. There are measurable improvements every day.
Daniel C. Dennett
The science you enjoy now is the science we taught you. The medicine you treat yourselves with is the medicine we gave you. Its the same with the astronomy you know, the mathematics, the literature, the art...
Muammar Gaddafi
I can't say that I love it with a fierce passion indeed as a profession it's rather disappointing since it is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
Adlai Stevenson
We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life the unborn without diminishing the value of all human life.
Ronald Reagan
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