Medical Accuracy Quotes

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

I did some research on cryonics and cryogenics, but I kept it to a minimum because I didn't want the science part of the novel to overshadow the fiction. Being medically accurate wasn't my main goal.

I'm married to a nurse, and she is really, really ardent that - in screenplays or movies that I've worked on, that all the medical aspects be properly presented. I think that filmmakers ought to be respectful of all fields and not just be lazy and put nonsense in movies because most people won't know the difference.

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

At Chicago Hope they have a technical staff that works real hard to make that O.R. as realistic as possible.

I think that children's books should be censored not for references to sex but for references to diseases. I mean, who didn't think after reading 'Madeline' that they were going to get appendicitis?

You can't really accurately diagnose someone, I think. Or I've been told that.

In 'Bodies,' we had a lot of gore because other medical dramas at the time had these hospitals where even a drop of blood seemed to be too much, which is clearly not what it's like when you cut someone up.

To hear the words 'autoimmune encephalitis' in a movie is amazing to me, and I'm so proud.

Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.

Read Mann's notes, which contain precise accounts of cholera and its symptoms, and observe how careful he is throughout his fiction in getting medical details straight - then you might begin to wonder whether cholera is the only candidate for the cause of Aschenbach's death. What results from this, I think, is a deeper appreciation of Mann's brilliance in keeping so many possibilities in play. The ambiguity is even more artful than people have realized.