Quotes by Marcia Angell

About Marcia Angell:

Marcia Angell is an American physician, author, and the first woman to serve as editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine. She is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts.
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When death is imminent and dying patients find their suffering unbearable, then the physician's role should shift from healing to relieving suffering in accord with the patient's wishes.

Marcia Angell

For all of life's discontents, according to the pharmaceutical industry, there is a drug and you should take it. Then for the side effects of that drug, then there's another drug, and so on. So we're all taking more drugs, and more expensive drugs.

Marcia Angell

You see that the people who are drawn to alternative medicine are often fairly healthy and they go to alternative medicine for what I call the 'symptoms of life.' Fatigue, joint pains, inability to concentrate, perhaps, the kinds of things that anyon...

Marcia Angell

I do think that we are an overmedicated society.

Marcia Angell

Author Bio

  • NameMarcia Angell
  • DescriptionPhysician
  • BornApril 20, 1939
  • ProfessionPhysician; Medical Writer
  • AwardsGeorge Polk Award