Can Medicine Be Cured? Quotes

“Medicine is not a science but a profession, a matter of practice… It goes to science and takes whatever results of research it considers efficacious; but it leaves all the rest. It leaves particularly what is most characteristic of science: the cultivation of the problematic and doubtful.”
― Seamus O'Mahony, Can Medicine Be Cured?: The Corruption of a Profession

“Temperamentally, I was made for the cloister, for the library, but fate placed me in the dust of the arena.”
― Seamus O'Mahony, Can Medicine Be Cured?: The Corruption of a Profession

“Does medicine still need breakthroughs? Is research still worth doing? Medicine should try its utmost to prevent premature mortality; I would arbitrarily set this as anything below eighty. More importantly, medicine should deal better with pain, suffering and disability. I do not believe, however, that better ways of relieving suffering will emerge from molecular medicine.”
― Seamus O'Mahony, Can Medicine Be Cured?: The Corruption of a Profession