Famous Quotes & Sayings

He stressed the interpersonal relationship of the doctor and patient,

Mordecai Richler

I don't hold with shamans, witch doctors, or psychiatrists. Shakespeare, Tolstoy, or even Dickens, understood more about the human condition than ever occurred to any of you. You overrated bunch of charlatans deal with the grammar of human problems, and the writers I've mentioned with the essence.

Mike Mason

There is no trick of a magician or spell of a witch doctor, no drug or mesmerism or bribery or torture or coercion that can compare in power with the force for change unleashed in the human breast through the touch of love.

Marcel Proust

A doctor who doesn't say too many foolish things is a patient half-cured.

Marcel Proust

Facts do not find their way into the world in which our beliefs reside; they did not produce our beliefs, they do not destroy them; they may inflict on them the most constant refutations without weakening them, and an avalanche of afflictions or ailments succeeding one another without interruption in a family will not make it doubt the goodness of its God or the talent of its doctor.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

The state has been living on a revenue which was being produced in the private sphere for private purposes and had to be deflected from these purposes by political force. The theory that construes taxes on the analogy of club dues or of the purchase of the services of, say, a doctor only proves how far removed this part of the social sciences is from scientific habits of mind.

Jose Carreras

The happiest moment in my life? When my doctor told me I was completely cured of leukaemia.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is so hard that one cannot really have confidence in doctors and yet cannot do without them.

Novalis

Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.

Heidi Julavits

You know you're screwed when a Western doctor recommends acupuncture.

Henry Fielding

Every physician almost hath his favourite disease.

Jonathan Safran Foer

For a long time, I thought I would like to be a doctor. Such a good profession. So explicitly good. Never a waste of time.

Norman Spinrad

I get work because I'm primarily a novelist but I've become script doctor. I can work back and forth between French and English.

Oliver Sacks

There is among doctors, in acute hospitals at least, a presumption of stupidity in their patients.

Michael Moore

Healthcare should be between the doctor and the patient. And if the doctor says something needs to be done, the government should guarantee it gets paid for.

Michael Grant

I had a polynomial once. My doctor removed it.

Michael Chang

I have lost a little bit of flexibility, but the doctors say with any kind of torn ligament it is not uncommon for the injury to take 16 months to be 100 percent healed.

Mariel Hemingway

There's no doctor in a white coat that's going to save you, or a system or a pill - it's always going to be you and the choices that you make.

Teri Garr

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

Teri Garr

In addition to having a good partnership with a good doctor, you have to do some of the work yourself. Go online, read about it, and find out what you can tolerate

Terrell Owens

Like I have said all along, I have the best doctor of all, and that is God. You can't argue with a guy like that.

Manny Coto

I would wait in line for anything to do with Doctor Who.

Joan Didion

When you lose someone, a whole lot of perfectly normal circumstances suddenly take on different meaning. You see it in a different light. You wonder if they knew. I wondered. Doctors have told me that people do have a sense of their own approaching death.

Eric Topol

The digitization of human beings will make a parody out of doctor knows best.

Eric Davis

I ate while I was taking chemo. The doctors didn't know. I really didn't get any nausea. I didn't have side effects. I would be drained for a day and a half.

John McPhee

The doctor listens in with a stethoscope and hears sounds of a warpath Indian drum.

John McCain

Did you hear the one about the woman who is attacked on the street by a gorilla, beaten senseless, raped repeatedly, and left to die? When she finally regains consciousness and tries to speak, her doctor leans over to hear her sigh contently and to feebly ask, 'Where is that marvelous ape?'

John Harvey Kellogg

Disease is cured by the body itself, not by doctors or remedies.

Shane Koyczan

A question like “do you love me?” was an itch our doctors told us not to scratch.

Michael Weatherly

My wife, Bojana, is a doctor; we both work intense hours and have months when we barely see each other. It isnt easy, but we realize nobody said it was supposed to be!

Michael Pollan

Better to pay the grocer than the doctor.

Sherman Alexie

If I were a doctor nobody would be inviting me to talk to reservations. I'd be a different person. Writers can influence more people.

John Ensign

Medical liability reform is not a Republican or Democrat issue or even a doctor versus lawyer issue. It is a patient issue.