William Banting Quotes

My diminished girth, in tailor phraseology, was hardly conceivable even by my own friends, or my respected medical adviser, until I put on my former clothing, over what I now wear, which is a thoroughly convincing proof of the remarkable change.

William Banting

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• Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Man
  • Head
  • Medical

• Nature can do more than physicians.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Nature
  • More
  • Medical

• Adam Sandler is a remarkable movie brand.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Movie
  • Brand
  • Remarkable

• With a lot of help from my high school teachers, I went to college and became a medical tech at a clinic outside Kansas City.

  

  Karolyn Grimes
  • School
  • Help
  • High

• If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • Like
  • Act
  • Medical

• I used to be one of the lead actors of a theatre group called Hetu when I was in medical school. Prithvi Theatre was our stomping ground. I'd got many positive reviews.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • School
  • Positive
  • Theatre

• When you have a half slice of chocolate pie, it's as if you owe yourself the other half - what's known in medical circles as a 'caloric deficit.'

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Yourself
  • Chocolate
  • Medical

• The path of progress cuts through the four-way intersection of the moral, medical, religious and political - and whichever way you turn, you are likely to run over someone's deeply held beliefs.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Political
  • Religious
  • Moral

• What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it - the process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialized language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve; empathy can be replaced by cynicism.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Learning
  • Empathy
  • Medical

• I know we can't always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural - no epidural, no interventions. Wish me luck.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • May
  • Hope
  • Wish

• I've participated in many demonstrations since I was a child. When I was at medical college, I was fighting King Farouk, then British colonization, against Nasser, against Sadat who pushed me into prison, Mubarak who pushed me into exile. I never stopped.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • College
  • Fighting
  • Child

• A hospital is no place to be sick.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Sick
  • Place
  • Medical

• No one plans to get sick or hurt - I certainly didn't - but most people will need medical care at some point in their lives.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Sick

• As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Experience
  • Wish
  • Medical

• Consider this: I can go to Antarctica and get cash from an ATM without a glitch, but should I fall ill during my travels, a hospital there could not access my medical records or know what medications I am on.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • Medical
  • Cash
  • Hospital

• The history of using mice to stand in for humans in medical experiments is replete with failures.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • History
  • Stand
  • Medical

• When you pay a hospital bill, you're really paying two hospital bills - one bill for you because you have a job and/or insurance and can pay the hospital. and another bill, which is tacked onto your bill, to cover the medical expenses of someone who doesn't have a job and/or insurance and can't pay the hospital.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Job
  • Insurance
  • Medical

• Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Arguments
  • Vulgar
  • Convincing

• I have four strikes against me. I'm black, I'm short, I'm intelligent, and I have a medical condition.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • Black
  • Intelligent
  • Short

• A cat only has itself.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Cat
  • Only
  • Itself

• I love being able to change from big films to small films.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Change
  • Being
  • Films

• If anybody in the world can play two guys, it's Tiger.

  

  Gary Player
  • World
  • Play
  • Tiger

• I am not this hair, I am not this skin, I am the soul that lives within

  

  Rumi
  • Soul
  • Hair
  • Lives

• My diminished girth, in tailor phraseology, was hardly conceivable even by my own friends, or my respected medical adviser, until I put on my former clothing, over what I now wear, which is a thoroughly convincing proof of the remarkable change.

  

  William Banting
  • Medical
  • Remarkable
  • Convincing