Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ayad Allawi

I'm a doctor and a politician. Weapons are foreign to me.

Avicenna

An ignorant doctor is the aide-de-camp of death.

Boris Pasternak

That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.

Bob Wright

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

Bob Wickman

There's huge satisfaction in that, but I've got to credit all the doctors and trainers in Cleveland.

Antonio Lobo Antunes

Of all the doctors I have known, psychoanalysts, a congregation of lay priests with bible, rites, and the faithful, constitute the most sinister, the most ridiculous, the most unwholesome of the species.

Antonio Gramsci

This is really the common mentality of prisoners: they read with great attention all the articles that deal with illnesses and send away for treatises and "be your own doctor" or "emergency treatments" and end up by discovering that they have at least 300 or 400 illnesses, whose symptoms they are experiencing.

Bruce Kovner

Fundamentalists who say they are not going to pay any attention to the charts are like a doctor who says he’s not going to take a patient’s temperature.

Edward Young

A strange alternative * * *Must women have a doctor or a dance?

Very few of these people make it to a treatment facility. They usually find another source. They usually doctor shop. They usually have more than one doctor for their illegal source of drugs.

Daniel Tammet

Working with the doctors is a fascinating two-way process. I am interested in what they suggest about why I'm the way I am. But if they could make me 'normal', I wouldn't want that. I've been like this for so long, it's what makes me .

Jay Wright

We're expecting the doctor to say he can practice. If he is cleared, he'll practice today right after his appointment.

Barry Bostwick

People have a tendency to cast me more as lawyers and doctors and just rich guys, rich assholes basically, a lot of rich assholes. That's what I'm normally seen as, you know.

Ato Essandoh

Another benefit of going to Cornell is that 90 percent of your friends are doctors.

Deborah Kara Unger

My family are doctors and pilots and people involved in indigenous First Nation land rights; not overtly artistic.

Deb Caletti

so what brings you to the doctor today?" "hmm, im afraid i have the chronic desire to save people" "i know about that. i've got it too. maybe it's catching." "not catching enough

Dennis Cardoza

Now is not the time to give greater protections to pharmaceutical companies that put unsafe drugs like Vioxx on the market. Such protections have nothing to do with the liability insurance crisis facing doctors and should be stripped from this bill.

Alexis Carrel

If the doctor of today does not become the dietician of tomorrow, the dietician of today will become the doctor of tomorrow.

Alexandra Fuller

There aren't enough doctors in Africa. Those who choose to become doctors here don't do it for the money or because they want to do good. They do it because they have to heal, the way most people need to breathe or eat or love.

Albert Schweitzer

It's supposed to be a secret, but I'll tell you anyway. We doctors do nothing. We only help. And encourage the doctor within.

Albert Schweitzer

Within every patient there resides a doctor, and we as physicians are at our best when we we put our patients in touch with the doctor inside themselves.

Nancy Gibbs

Right now, doctors can test for about 2,500 medical conditions, but they only can treat about 500 of those. So what do you do with the knowledge about the others?

Right now I'm feeling great. I'm not the expert here. The doctors and the trainers are, so I just have to trust their opinions.

People were once forced into psychiatric institutions. Going to a doctor was a very fearful experience for many people.

Petaluma doctors are taking very significant action, and it is sending a message to other physicians throughout the area.

Personally, ... I would give a Nobel prize to the doctor who could eliminate hot flushes. It really is important.

One of the problems is finding a doctor to work for a non-profit and to come work in such an expensive area. We've lost some doctors because of how expensive it is here.

Terry Hoeppner

I was talking to the doctors and I just said for us to quit messing around with him and get him well so that he is not two steps forward and one step back,

Barbara Mikulski

A pregnant woman facing the most dire circumstances must be able to count on her doctor to do what is medically necessary to protect her from serious physical harm.

Ayn Rand

Doctors are not servants of their patients, they are traders like everyone else in a free society and they should bear that title proudly considering the crucial importance of the services they offer.

Ayn Rand

The first society in history whose leaders were neither Attilas nor Witch Doctors, a society led, dominated and created by the Producers, was the United States of America.

Ben Goldacre

Yes. I'm a doctor, an epidemiologist, and lots of my professional colleagues flip back and forth between industry and medical roles. I know them; they are not bad people. But it is possible for good people in bad systems to do things that inflict enormous harm.

Ben Goldacre

I agree, the world would be a better place if doctors were less enthusiastic about adopting very new drugs.