Medical Harm Quotes

Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.

It is possible in medicine, even when you intend to do good, to do harm instead. That is why science thrives on actively encouraging criticism rather than stifling it.

For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.

Psychiatry causes so much death.

The medical establishment has become the major threat to health.

Doctors cut, burn, and torture the sick, and then demand of them an undeserved fee for such services.

This is the reality of intensive care: at any point, we are as apt to harm as we are to heal.

I firmly believe that if the whole material medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be better for mankind-and all the worse for the fishes.

I hospitalized a rock, killed a brick...I'm so bad I make medicine sick!

We labor under the fatal delusion that no disease can be cured without medicine. This has been responsible for more mischief to mankind than any other evil. ...Disease increases in proportion to the increase to the number of doctors in a place.

Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.

I feel badly for the people who suffer from the side effects and consequences of hazardous pharmaceuticals. It's antithetical to the Hippocratic oath.

Otis Brawley is one of America's truly outstanding physician scientists. In How We Do Harm, he challenges all of us-- physicians, patients, and communities-- to recommit ourselves to the pledge to 'do no harm.'

There is no shortage of embarrassing facts about healthcare, and people die every day in the U.S. due to preventable errors - would you fly planes if you knew several of them would drop out of the sky every day?

You must be born for your physician, otherwise you are bound to perish because of your physician.

I am, and have been for years, a confirmed anti-vaccinationist...I have not the least doubt in my mind that vaccination is a filthy process that is harmful in the end.

It may seem a strange principal to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm.

The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.

Chemotherapy isn't good for you.

I have endeavored to show that there is no real service of humanity in the profession of medicine and that it is injurious to mankind.

Dissections daily convince us of our ignorance of the seats of diseases, and cause us to blush at our prescriptions. How often are we disappointed in our expectation from the most certain and powerful of our remedies, by the negligence or obstinacy of our patients! What mischief have we done under the belief of false facts and false theories! We have assisted in multiplying diseases. We have done more — we have increased their mortality.

Of old when folk lay sick and sorely tried The doctors gave them physic, and they died. But here's a happier age: for now we know Both how to make men sick and keep them so.

It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm. It is quite necessary nevertheless to lay down such a principle.

We are being medically mugged by these laboratories.

People have the right to know the drugs they are taking will make them better instead of harming them.