Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Ivan Oransky
American Health Reporter, Medical Doctor turned Reporter, Executive Editor of Reuters Health, Professor of Journalism and Medicine at New York University, Managing Editor of Scientific American
"Every year we're spending more than two trillion dollars on healthcare, and yet 100,000 people a year are dying not because of the conditions they have, but because of the treatments that we're giving them."
"[In medical school] I didn't have a course called ?How to Think Skeptically.?"
"You all have a universally fatal condition. It's called pre-death."
"Most [doctors] are in a fee-for-service system. They are incentivized to do more ? procedures, tests, prescribe medications."