Quotes About Doctors

#1. I'd never heard of colon cancer. Baseball wasn't even important to me. I have a wife and two girls. That's what was important. The doctors told me and all I could say was, 'When are we going to get this thing out?'

Eric Davis

#2. You know why doctors slap babies on the bottom when they're born? So the dicks fall off the smart ones."
He laughed. "You know why women don't have dicks? So they can stand closer to the kitchen sink.

Barbara Elsborg

#3. Using this novel method, doctors could treat female patients without violating the honor of her family.

Jack Weatherford

#4. Doctors don't seem to realize that most of us are perfectly content not having to visualize ourselves as animated bags of skin filled with obscene glop.

Joe Haldeman

#5. Psychotherapy is a practice that many different professional disciplines engage. Psychiatrists are also medical doctors and increasingly offer medication and do less and less actual therapy.

Jed Diamond

#6. Business crises energize me. Personal crises devastate me. The doctors call it an avoidance tendency. (Mirena to Eve)

J.D. Robb

#7. Most people are squeamish about saying how much they earn, but in medicine the situation seems especially fraught. Doctors aren't supposed to be in it for the money, and the more concerned a doctor seems to be about making money the more suspicious people become about the care being provided.

Atul Gawande

#8. Nobody defines it as something women shouldn't be doing. In a way, there are more mathematicians, more doctors, more scientists in India than there are in this country. We even had a woman head of state, and that's something the United States has yet to catch up with.

Vandana Shiva

#9. Great hospitals do two things. They look after patients, and they teach young doctors. We look after clients, and we teach young advertising people.

David Ogilvy

#10. What we have now is doctors who are actually better technically at what they're doing in their specialty than 30 or 40 years ago, but we lost the relationship, when the doctor would look people in the eye and say, 'I care about you. We can do this together.'

Mehmet Oz

#11. The surest road to health, say what they will, Is never to suppose we shall be ill. Most of those evils we poor mortals know, From doctors and imagination flow.

Orison Swett Marden

#12. There were two classes of persons upon whom a duty of virtually absolute confidentiality rested: doctors and lovers.

Alexander McCall Smith

#13. I don't even like the show that much, I mean, it's about doctors. It's not like doctors are as important as actors anyway, I bet I've saved more lives with my acting talent then any doctor has.

Zach Braff

#14. Doctors believe that straining too much or too often on the toilet can also seriously increase the risk of varicose veins, a stroke, or defecation syncope - fainting on the toilet.

Giulia Enders

#15. Sometimes the walk to the doctors is a better cure than the medicine you receive

Benny Bellamacina

#16. I am one of four girls and was inspired by my father to dream big. Some girls want to be doctors, but I wanted to run a company.

Denise Morrison

#17. peculiar. Allergies he expected, and that anti-septic smell never failed to make his head spin. Despite what his many Doctors would tell you, Nathan hated hospitals. Jogging through the foliage keeping

Jack Price

#18. By 2025, 80 percent of the functions doctors do will be done much better and much more cheaply by machines and machine learned algorithms,

Vinod Khosla

#19. There were symptoms that I saw, and though I went to many doctors and had many tests, no one diagnosed MS.

Teri Garr

#20. Like many doctors of his era, TeLinde often used patients from the public wards for research, usually without their knowledge.

Rebecca Skloot

#21. America's doctors, nurses and medical researchers are the best in the world, but our health care system is broken.

Mike Ferguson

#22. Avoid doctors like the bubonic plague. On some level I know it's ignorant, but I think the stress of knowing you have a fatal disease kills faster than the disease itself.

Emma Chase

#23. One of my favorite footnotes in the hypochondria book [The Hypochondriac's Guide to Life. And Death.] was about the death of one of the King Charleses. He was essentially bled and vomited to death by his doctors. They also drilled holes in his head.

Gene Weingarten

#24. Don't listen to anyone's advice. Listen to your baby ... There are so many books, doctors, and well-meaning friends and family. We like to say, 'You don't need a book. Your baby is a book. Just pick it up and read it.'

Mayim Bialik

#25. I don't know what a person does that does not have a relationship with God. When he goes to the doctor and the doctors says, 'Hey, you've got less than two months to live and there's nothing we can do for you.' Who do they turn to when you're given something that earth shattering?

Si Robertson

#26. Often doctors didn't even tell you what was wrong with you. They just treated you, and sent you home.

Rebecca Skloot

#27. My doctors asked what was wrong when they found me pale faced and lifeless. I told them I spent an immense amount of time stuDYING.

Karen Quan

#28. The first society in history whose leaders were neither Attilas nor Witch Doctors, a society led, dominated and created by the Producers, was the United States of America.

Ayn Rand

#29. That's why every doctor on TV is a drug addict, a sociopath, or just plain mega-rude. Doctors can do anything they want!

Mindy Kaling

#30. Both my parents are doctors, so from the time I was a child, I wanted to do medicine.

Riaad Moosa

#31. He said that private practice in medicine ought to be put down by law. When I asked him why, he said that private doctors were ignorant licensed murders.

George Bernard Shaw

#32. The best doctors and medicine in the world can't save you if you don't do what you're supposed to do.

Magic Johnson

#33. It's hard to be a good doctor if you don't think about the social circumstances of who you're treating. There are many Tory doctors, but I think it's difficult to be a doctor and a genuine right-winger.

Robert Winston

#34. Johnson told the doctors that "he enjoyed nothing but whiskey, sunshine and sex." Reedy found the moment "poignant," he was to recall. "Without realizing what he was doing, he had outlined succinctly the tragedy of his life. The only way he could get away from himself was sensation: sun, booze, sex.

Robert A. Caro

#35. The current regulations -- for companies, doctors and researchers -- create perverse incentives; and we'll have better luck fixing those broken systems than we will ever have trying to rid the world of avarice

Ben Goldacre

#36. When the doctors told us she was dying I held her hand and gave up. We both did. I know it wouldn't have made any difference in the end but I wish I had let her see how much I wanted to keep her. I should have raged, Maureen.

Rachel Joyce

#37. If economists were doctors, they would today be mired in malpractice suits.

John Ralston Saul

#38. One of the reasons the doctors gave for hospitalizing me against my will was that I was 'gravely disabled.' To support this view, they wrote in my chart that I was unable to do my Yale Law School homework. I wondered what that meant about much of the rest of New Haven.

Elyn Saks

#39. If you think that you have caught a cold, call in a good doctor. Call in three good doctors and play bridge.

Robert Benchley

#40. I used to have terrible acne on my face: red, splotchy discoloration. And mucus - I was constantly blowing my nose. Then one day, this woman sits down next to me on a bus, and says, 'You're lactose-intolerant.' It all cleared up in three days. That changed my life. Doctors couldn't figure it out.

Woody Harrelson

#41. As time goes on, the more I value doctors and plumbers. Doctors a little more. I can fix my own toilet but I still can't operate on myself.

Bob Saget

#42. For 30 years, which I never talked about in Hollywood, I actually worked with doctors lecturing and doing some medical intuitive counseling both in a medical setting and for the community at large.

Diane Ladd

#43. I have no right to be sad about anything. No right to have therapy from expensive doctors like you for losing children who never existed. There is real grief in the world. There are real mothers losing real children.

Liane Moriarty

#44. Sedatives and slim pills: French doctors are so obliging. That's why French women don't get fat.

L.S. Hilton

#45. There was only one creature smarter than all of those doctors put together: the Internet. (Yes, it's a creature, okay?) I

Scott Adams

#46. His doctors said he was, in many ways, the most remarkable patient they'd ever seen. His bravery, so stark and real, that even those used to seeing people in dire circumstances were moved by his example.

Bob Costas

#47. My father was a doctor in Moravia, in the south of the country. There were a number of Jewish doctors in the hospital there, and at a certain point - almost too late, really, but in time - they were all sent overseas by their employer.

Tom Stoppard

#48. In this case they're doctors. But having passion for your work and to take risks in order to better human kind. That's a pretty big theme. It's pretty inspiring.

Mary Stuart Masterson

#49. gymnasts retire at 20, cricketers at 34, actresses at 32, actors at 75, salesmen at 50, other employees at 58 or 60 years, and doctors and lawyers when their bodies do not listen to their minds. Of course, one class beats them all - politicians retire at 90!

P.V. Subramanyam

#50. A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors.

Mark Twain

#51. So lethal was the disease that cases were known of persons going to bed well and dying before they woke, of doctors catching the illness at a bedside and dying before the patient.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#52. Doctors bury their mistakes, but mine are still on scholarship.

Abe Lemons

#53. For the record, I believe that women and their doctors should have access to oral contraception when desired by the patient and medically appropriate.

Ami Bera

#54. I'm human, we all are - all doctors are - and grieving is a natural part of medicine. As a doctor, grieving is a natural part of medicine. If you deny that, again, you'd get into this trap of curing and victory. I think grief is very important.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#55. So you see that the eye of the intellect has received supernatural light, infused by grace, by which the doctors and saints knew light in darkness, and of darkness made light.

Catherine Of Siena

#56. I think losing a loved one must be a little like losing a leg. First there is the shock, then the anesthetic, and the painkillers; the attention of doctors and nurses, flowers and cards and visits from friends. But sooner or later you have to learn to walk without it.

Ruth Graham

#57. When doctors describe pain as experiencing "discomfort," it's like saying Hiroshima experienced "urban renewal".

Dave Barry

#58. Great teachers should be paid like doctors or corporate attorneys. I worry about what will happen to our economy and our democracy if we don't start to take teachers' jobs seriously.

Ninive Clements Calegari

#59. It's unreasonable to expect medical doctors and pharmaceutical companies to tell you how to avoid their services by trying the alternatives.

Andrew Saul

#60. You wouldn't go to a hospital, you wouldn't go to a law firm where the doctors and lawyers were not retained on merit: where they all had tenure regardless of competence. Parents feel the same way about schools that they send their children to.

David Boies

#61. The guinea earned by doctors for a delivery was a significant part of their income. The threat of being undercut by trained midwives had to be resisted.

Jennifer Worth

#62. Doctors said 'go home and enjoy what little is left of your life'. He recovered.

Richard M. Schulze

#63. When you're head over heels about someone, it's a real painkiller. You almost wonder why doctors don't recommend it more.

Victor Lodato

#64. You could've married the god of doctors or the god of lawyers, but noooo. You had to eat the pomegranate.

Rick Riordan

#65. I was like one of those people who is allergic to the twentieth century ... I'd been brought up to think there was some order to things, but there was no safety net. Doctors accused me of being mad.

Peter Wolf

#66. If you have a chance of working for a healthy company or a sick one, choose the sick one. The sickest ones need the best doctors and it's a lot easier to stand out in a company that needs help.

Greg Brenneman

#67. Medicines cure diseases, but only doctors can cure patients.

Carl Jung

#68. Bonds and the pangs of hunger are excellent prophet doctors for the wits.

Aeschylus

#69. When I was 24, I co-founded a company called Athenahealth which built the first Web-based software and back-office service suite for doctors' offices.

Todd Park

#70. It's easier for doctors to continue treating symptoms instead of causes and for drug companies to develop new, moneymaking drugs than it is to change the nation's food supply.

Vani Hari

#71. I am lucky: I have fantastic doctors and a fantastic dentist.

Anna Deavere Smith

#72. Doctors cut, burn, and torture the sick, and then demand of them an undeserved fee for such services.

Heraclitus

#73. Doctors of Science, what is man that he
Should hope to come to a good end?
The best is not to have been born.

Anthony Hecht

#74. If doctors are paid the same salary as bus drivers, community would not be crazy about making their children doctors

Nouman Ali Khan

#75. The definition of black irony is Pro-lifers killing Doctors who do abortions

Bill Hicks

#76. For most of the millions of people who watch TED videos at the office, it's a middlebrow diversion and a source of factoids to use on your friends. Except TED thinks it's changing the world, like if 'This American Life' suddenly mistook itself for Doctors Without Borders.

Alex Pareene

#77. They said the doctors could tell from the scars."
"Stop."
"Scars can tell you how old the wound is."
"Stop."
"When I stopped going to school, they came and found me. They found me in the closet."
"Sarah.

Amy Reed

#78. Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.

Nan Hayworth

#79. Professor Rumfoord said frightful things about Billy within Billy's hearing, confident that Billy no longer had any brain at all. "Why don't they let him die?" he asked Lily. "I don't know," she said. "That's not a human being anymore. Doctors are for human beings.

Kurt Vonnegut

#80. Doctors tell me that nothing in my brain was newly created or added when I was injured. Rather, innate but dormant skills were released.

Jason Padgett

#81. Strangely enough, doctors and nurses noted that activity actually prolonged life, when it should have shortened it. Those who lay down and tried to conserve energy often were the ones who trailed off and died first.

M T Anderson

#82. Countless doctors have drawn little tic-tac-toe grids for my parents over the years to try to explain the genetic lottery to them. Geneticists

R.J. Palacio

#83. Conceit is a disease That the doctors got no cure They've done a lot of research on it But what it is, they're still not sure.

Evan Esar

#84. But I always have thought it was strange, if our mother cells done so much for medicine, how come her family can't afford to see no doctors? Don't make no sense. People got rich off my mother without us even knowin about them takin her cells, now we don't get a dime.

Rebecca Skloot

#85. Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.

Al McGuire

#86. I've been talking to people, and I've gone to hospitals, talked to survivors, to doctors, to caregivers. I just learned that there's really no one way for somebody to experience dealing with cancer.

Italia Ricci

#87. But one led to two, two led to four, four led to eight, until at the end it was about 85 a day - the doctors could not believe I was taking that much. And that was just the valium - I'm not talking about the other pills I went through.

Corey Haim

#88. SIR! SIR! SIR! FORGET THAT 'SIR' STUFF, WILL YOU? I'll bet if that were the president or governor or mayor or some rich son of a bitch, there would be doctors all over that room doing something! Why do you just let them die? What's the sin in being poor?

Charles Bukowski

#89. Recovery on the med model requires you to be obedient, like a child," she explains. "You are obedient to your doctors, you are compliant with your therapist, and you take your meds. There's no striving toward greater intellectual concerns. (123)

Robert Whitaker

#90. Doctors who spend more time talking into their tape recorders instead of looking into the eyes of their patients. (Spare us the "HMOs only give us so much time" diatribe. Medicine is about giving scared people comfort and help for people whose pain level is matched only by their anxiety level.)

Karl Albrecht

#91. Medicine, I said, begins with storytelling. Patients tell stories to describe illness; doctors tell stories to understand it. Science tells its own story to explain diseases.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#92. This medical device gives doctors a new option for treating twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome. It can help prolong the mother's pregnancy and improve the odds of survival, with reduced complications, for one or both twins.

Daniel Schultz

#93. Unhealthy behavior is actually common among doctors, who tend to know a lot about medicine but very little about health.

Sol Luckman

#94. Perhaps today there is a greater kindness of tone, as there is greater ingenuity of expression to make up for the fact that all the real, solid, elemental jests against doctors were uttered some one or two thousand years ago.

Charles Loomis Dana

#95. Remember, Monsieur, that Saint Augustine says that a person who does not obey the doctors is doing his best to kill himself.

Vincent De Paul

#96. Doctors tell me I have the body of a thirty year old. I know I have the brain of a fifteen year old. If you've got both, you can play baseball.

Pete Rose

#97. Team doctors' jobs those days were to keep you on the field.

Merlin Olsen

#98. If the history of medicine is told through the stories of doctors, it is because their contributions stand in place of the more substantive heroism of their patients. I

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#99. When donors visited the Black Panther Party, they came and saw our real programs, a real clinic, with real doctors and medics, giving service to people.

Bobby Seale

#100. Now of the difficulties bound up with the public in which we doctors work, I hesitate to speak in a mixed audience. Common sense in matters medical is rare, and is usually in inverse ratio to the degree of education.

William Osler