Doctor Quotes
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My writing flows out of my doctorhood. They are not separate things. They are one. I think the foremost connection between being a doctor and being a writer is the great privilege of having an intimate view of one's fellow humans, the privilege of being there and helping other people at their most vulnerable moments.
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The day I found out, the day I got my mammogram and the doctor told me I had breast cancer, it was mid-November.
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What doctor does not need platform heels and dark black eyeliner to treat their patients?
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Even when I'm playing a lawyer or a doctor, I want to play a person. A human being.
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The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
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I told my doctor I got water on my knee, he gave me a sponge and raised his fee!
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Hospice means end-of-life care. The admission ticket is a diagnosis from a doctor that you have six months or less to live.
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Any doctor keeps a list of possible remedies available.
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Let no one suppose that the words doctor and patient can disguise from the parties the fact that they are employer and employee.
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I'd like to have every gentleman and lady in this room commit themselves to get our government to legalize drugs, so they have to get it through a doctor, not just some gangsters who sell it under the table. Let's legalize drugs like they did in Amsterdam. No one's hiding or sneaking around corners to get it. They go to a doctor to get it.
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With my doctor, I don't get no respect. I told him I want a vasectomy. He said with a face like mine, I don't need one.
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No doctor has ever healed anyone of anything in the history of the world. The human immune system heals and that's the only thing that heals.
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I always wanted to be a fireman, a cop, an Indian chief, a doctor, a lawyer. I always wanted to be all these things, so I am drawn to these kinds of characters.
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I told my doctor I think my wife has VD. He gave himself a shot of penicillin.
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I was diagnosed with an early, early stage of prostate cancer. I was almost a vegetarian then. I was heading that direction. What pushed me over the edge, was the doctor who did the diagnosis. He said in a discussion about prostate cancer that he had never seen a vegetarian with prostate cancer. And this is not a holistic doctor, this is a regular, mainstream doctor. And I was just blown away.
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One day in Auschwitz I became so dispirited that I couldn't carry on. They had given me a beating, which wasn't exactly a pleasant experience. It was on a Sunday, and I said: 'I can't get up'. Then my comrades said: 'That's impossible, you have to get up, otherwise you're lost'. They went to a Dutch doctor, who worked with the German doctor. He came to me in the barracks and said: 'Get up and come to the hospital barracks early tomorrow morning. I'll talk to the German doctor and make sure you are admitted'. Because of that I survived.
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I was an ugly kid; when I was born, after the doctor cut the cord, he hung himself.
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When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother.
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I was never a big networker, but I was a spin doctor, all those shock shows, that's how I got my first backers. But fashion's a scary industry to be in, especially if you've not grown up with it.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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I work with a place in Santa Monica called Phase IV. My doctor recommended them to me when I started losing weight. They help people train for things like triathlons or biking and running races. They offer physical therapists, testing, lectures.
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My brother is gay and my parents don't care, as long as he marries a doctor.
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The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.
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I think every doctor should know the shocking state of affairs...We discovered they (the FDA) failed to effectively regulate the large manufacturers and powerful interests while recklessly persecuting the small manufacturers. ...(The FDA is) harassing (small) manufacturers and doctors...(and) betrays the public trust.
