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.
Quotes By Lewis Thomas
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Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi...
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The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly...
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If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself...
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We're as clever as we think we are but we'll be a lot cleverer when we learn...
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Very few recognize science as the high adventure it really is the wildest of...
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The central task of science is to arrive stage by stage at a clearer...
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I suggest that the introductory courses in science at all levels from grade...
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Much of today's public anxiety about science is the apprehension that we may...
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The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from...
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Our behavior toward each other is the strangest most unpredictable and most...
Quotes About Education
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In Holland they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have...
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I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education and my hopes of...
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I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are...
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I feel like in America we don't have a kid problem. You think about all...
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Even on education his one accomplishment the Leave No Child Behind Act and...
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I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
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In England literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our...
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It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and...
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A lot of people criticize the primaries but I think they are absolutely...