Doctors Quotes
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Medicare is immune from the competitive pressures that force private insurers to pay attention to what patients and doctors want.
Virginia Postrel -
And we have made of ourselves living cesspools, and driven doctors to invent names for our diseases.
Plato
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I think I definitely got scared by the second or third time a doctor told me I was dying.
Daniel Johns Silverchair -
There are only two sorts of doctors; those who practise with their brains, and those who practise with their tongues.
William Osler -
It's been incredibly frustrating. The US government gave permission for the doctors to live in America, in freedom.
Jeff Cohen -
Doctors bury their mistakes, but mine are still on scholarship.
Abe Lemons -
We're filling a big universe [in Doctor Strange], and so the look and the sort of plasticity of us is really important to us when we're striking poses here. It's very important, it's really great.
Tilda Swinton -
You might say it was my return to the living that launched me as a singer. I was placed in an oxygen tent, and the doctors brought me back to life.
Patsy Cline
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I'm just really old [in Doctor Strange]. Just really, really old. There is I suppose a sort of theme tune which I'm really interested in.
Tilda Swinton -
He was a nice guy, middle-aged, a little tired, like most doctors usually seemed to be, but he just nodded and said, "Let me take a look at him. Shane?" "I'm not dropping my pants," Shane said. "I just thought I'd say that up front.
Rachel Caine -
When other people first became aware of the cow, they expressed concern and anxiety. They suggested strategies for getting the animal out of Molly's parlor: remedies and doctors and procedures, some mainstream and some New Age. They related anecdotes of friends who had removed their own cows in one way or another. But after a while they had exhausted their suggestions. Then they usually began to pretend that the cow wasn't there, and they preferred for Molly to go along with the pretense.
Alison Lurie -
Each patient carries his own doctor inside him.
Norman Cousins -
I wonder why you can always read a doctor's bill and you can never read his prescription.
Finley Peter Dunne -
Western doctors are like poor plumbers. They treat a splashing tub by cleaning up the water. These plumbers are extremely apt at drying up the water, constantly inventing new, expensive, and refined methods of drying up water. Somebody should teach them how to close the tap.
Denis Parsons Burkitt
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Ah? A small aversion to menial labor?" The doctor cocked an eyebrow. "Understandable, but misplaced. One should treasure those hum-drum tasks that keep the body occupied but leave the mind and heart unfettered.
Tad Williams -
A vague uneasiness: the police. It's like when you suddenly understand you have to undress in front of the doctor.
Ugo Betti -
Experience is an excellent doctor, though he never had a diploma.
Sara Willis -
Advice is like a doctor's pills; how easily he gives them! how reluctantly he takes them when his turn comes!
Sara Willis -
But I think doctors have always been either honest or dishonest.
Leonard Baskin -
Treating only terminal cancer patients, the Rand (anti-cancer) vaccine produced objective improvement in 35% of 600 patients while another 30% demonstrated subjective improvement. FDA stopped the vaccine's use in a federal court hearing where neither the cancer patients nor their doctors were allowed to testify.
Barry Lynes
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If they prescribe pain killers that may increase the possibility of death so long as their specific intention was not to end life." "Doctors should do everything they can to reduce pain, but not to administer drugs to end life, I think we go over a line then.
Joe Lieberman -
If we wanted to make money we would have become lawyers or doctors or stuff like that.
Gabriel Ba -
I actually like how doctors talk. I like the sound of science. I like how words you don't understand explain things you can't understand.
R. J. Palacio -
Two of the most frustrated trades are dentists and photographers - dentists because they want to be doctors, and photographers because they want to be painters.
Pablo Picasso