Logo
Quote by Lewis Thomas
The dilemma of modern medicine, and the underlying central flaw in

The dilemma of modern medicine, and the underlying central flaw in medical education and, most of all, in the training of interns, is the irresistible drive to do something, anything. It is expected by patients and too often agreed to by their doctors, in the face of ignorance. – Lewis Thomas

Other quotes by Lewis Thomas

Statistically, the probability of any of us being here is so small that youd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in contented dazzlement of surprise. – Lewis Thomas

Category:
Statistics
Author
Lewis Thomas
Read Quote

Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the earliest records of every culture on earth. It is hard to think of a more dependable or enduring occupation, harder still to imagine any future events leading to its extinction. – Lewis Thomas

Category:
Future
Author
Lewis Thomas
Read Quote

Much of todays public anxiety about science is the apprehension that we may forever be overlooking the whole by an endless, obsessive preoccupation with the parts. – Lewis Thomas

Category:
Science
Author
Lewis Thomas
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Education
category

Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world. – Malcolm X

Category:
Education

In regard to education, something has been done by the Provincial Legislature but to build churches, and to place clergymen is a work of greater difficulty. – John Strachan

Category:
Education

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students. – Carl Sagan

Category:
Education

I also found that for myself, since Ive had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means. – Barbara Walters

Category:
Education

Random Quotes

There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments. – Chris Rock

Category:
Food

I dont blame folks for not wanting to put me in their movies or whatever. I understand if their audiences had an association with me. – Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Category:
movies

I had my heart set on becoming an English teacher, but stumbled into acting after meeting a theatrical agent in my dads restaurant in San Diego. – Charisma Carpenter

Category:
dad

The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency. – Pope John Paul II

Category:
Experience