"American medicine grows because its major functions are
economic and political, rather than therapeutic."
-John L. McKnight, Comparative Medicine
for sure!!!
"[Medicine is] a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind."
-Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
"Physicians pour drugs of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less,
into humans of which they know nothing."
-Francois Voltaire (1694-1778)
yup
Some drugs have been appropriately called 'wonder drugs'
in that one wonders what they'll do next."
-Annals of Internal Medicine