Lewis Thomas Quote

There is within medicine, somewhere beneath the pessimism and discouragement resulting from the disarray of the health-care system and its stupendous cost, an undercurrent of almost outrageous optimism about what may lie ahead for the treatment of human disease if we can only keep learning.


The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher, Medical Lessons from History (p. 166)


There is within medicine, somewhere beneath the pessimism and discouragement resulting from the disarray of the health-care system and its stupendous ...

There is within medicine, somewhere beneath the pessimism and discouragement resulting from the disarray of the health-care system and its stupendous ...

There is within medicine, somewhere beneath the pessimism and discouragement resulting from the disarray of the health-care system and its stupendous ...

There is within medicine, somewhere beneath the pessimism and discouragement resulting from the disarray of the health-care system and its stupendous ...