Quotes by Medical Profession HOMŒOPATHIST, n. The humorist of the medical profession. Ambrose Bierce medical-profession humour science A placebo is a phony cure that works. This is very hard for the medical profession to get their teeth around because they hate placebos, but scientifically, placebos work in about 30% of cases that are psychogenic diseases. Charles Jencks medical-profession teeth hate Of course, the medical profession doesn't like D.I.Y. anything. Eric Topol medical-profession profession medical The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions. Florence Nightingale medical-profession doctrine mind I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death. Jack Kevorkian medical-profession responsibility trying We'd been assured it wouldn't be painful, though she might experience 'discomfort,' a term beloved of the medical profession that seems to be a synonym for agony that isn't yours. Lionel Shriver medical-profession agony might Why should anyone - the state, the medical profession, or anyone else - presume to tell someone else how much suffering they must endure as their life is ending? Marcia Angell medical-profession suffering life-is With the exception of lawyers, there is no profession which, considers itself above the law so widely as the medical profession. Samuel Hopkins Adams medical-profession physicians law