Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julia Roberts

Your face tells a story and it shouldn't be a story about your drive to the doctor's office.

Patch Adams

I am a Doctor, but above all else I consider myself an activist for peace, justice and care for all people.

Patch Adams

The purpose of a doctor or any human in general should not be to simply delay the death of the patient, but to increase the person's quality of life.

Jodi Picoult

It's just like nurses in a hospital tend to know more than the doctors most of the time; if you really want to get the answers to a question about court, you should spend more time buttering up the clerks than the judges.

Jodi Picoult

The nurses, I have already learned, are the ones who give us the answers we’re desperate for. Unlike the doctors, who fidget like they need to be somewhere else, the nurses patiently answer us as if we are the first set of parents to ever have this kind of meeting with them, instead of the thousandth.

Paul Broun

One such troubling provision is a tax increase to pay for the $635 billion included in the budget for health care 'reserve funds.' Health care reform is desperately needed in America, but I'm concerned that $635 billion will be a down payment on socialized medicine, causing the impersonal rationing of health care and destroying the doctor-patient relationship.

Martha Beck

People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures.

Margery Allingham

Good doctors get a mechanic's pleasure in making you tick over.

Publilius Syrus

An intemperate patient makes a harsh doctor.

Nelson Mandela

The wounds that cannot be seen are more painful than those that can be treated by a doctor.

Nellie Bly

I always made a point of telling the doctors I was sane, and asking to be released, but the more I endeavored to assure them of my sanity, the more they doubted it

R. Lee Ermey

I go the VA Hospital when I have a problem and the doctor jumps on me.

Howard Dean

No doctor is going to do an abortion on a live fetus. That doesn't happen. Doctors don't do that. If they do, they'll get their license pulled, as well they should.

Ivan Illich

The medicalization of early diagnosis not only hampers and discourages preventative health-care but it also trains the patient-to-be to function in the meantime as an acolyte to his doctor. He learns to depend on the physician in sickness and in health. He turns into a life-long patient.

Irvin D. Yalom

Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms. The drive for power is not uncommonly motivated by this dynamic. One's own fear and sense of limitation is avoided by enlarging oneself and one's sphere of control. There is some evidence, for example, that those who enter the death-related professions (soldiers, doctors, priests, and morticians) may in part be motivated by a need to obtain control over death anxiety.

Ina May Gaskin

When you destroy midwives, you also destroy a body of knowledge that is shared by women, that can’t be put together by a bunch of surgeons or a bunch of male obstetricians, because physiologically, birth doesn’t happen the same way around surgeons, medically trained doctors, as it does around sympathetic women.

Kim Harrison

if I’d been hit with the same thing as Glenn, I probably had his doctor. The thought seemed about right when Glenn shrank back in his chair with a guilty expression. The tomato, too, was in hiding somewhere. I didn’t want to know where. I truly didn’t.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Most people don't have the advantage of being able to evaluate their doctor in advance.

Kingsley Amis

How wrong people always were when they said: 'It's better to know the worst than go on not knowing either way.' No; they had it exactly the wrong way round. Tell me the truth, doctor, I'd sooner know. But only if the truth is what I want to hear.

Graham Swift

I had a fear of becoming anything, a fear of becoming a specialist. I might have become a doctor, but if you become a doctor, that's your specialty in life and you are defined by it. One of the attractions of being a writer is that you're never a specialist. Your field is entirely open; your field is the entire human condition.

Larry the Cable Guy

I saw a sign one time that said 'hemorrhoids awareness week' at the doctor's office. Let me tell you, if you got hemorrhoids, I'm sure you are aware of it. You don't need a sign to tell anybody about it.

Pablo Picasso

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.

Patsy Cline

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.

Maeve Binchy

Of course, I should have done what doctors said and walked for miles every day and not eaten great amounts of butter. But then, life is life, and if we all did what they said we should do, it would be a different world.

Liya Kebede

Midwives and doctors play a crucial role preventing unnecessary maternal deaths. They educate women about nutrition, health and family planning. And they step in when complications arise.

Michael Crichton

Without question, the notion of the doctor as a legitimate fee-for-service entrepreneur, making his fortune from misfortunes of his patients, is old-fashioned, distasteful, and doomed.

Hippocrates

Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.

Hippocrates

Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.

Evan Esar

More diets start in dress shops than in doctors' offices.

Evan Esar

You can't judge the ability of a doctor by the amount of praise the undertakers give him.

Evan Esar

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.

Eugene Ionesco

A really conscientious doctor ought to die with his patient. The captain goes down with his ship.

Ezekiel Emanuel

Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously, as an imperative to do everything for the patient regardless of the cost or effects on others