Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

John Oliver

I don't know if there is some psychological thing of wanting to know where your doctor got his degree from before he comes into the medical room.

Joe Haldeman

Doctors don’t seem to realize that most of us are perfectly content not having to visualize ourselves as animated bags of skin filled with obscene glop.

Joan Rivers

You know you've reached middle age when you're cautioned to slow down by your doctor, instead of by the police.

Jimmy Fallon

One of the candidates at the early GOP debate, George Pataki, said his routine before every debate is to drink a diet lemon Snapple iced tea and pray. Which is also the advice Chris Christie gets from his doctor.

Garry Trudeau

Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?

Elaine Stritch

I don't have to go to a doctor and have my face changed. It terrifies me that women do that.

Lionel Tiger

Our ancestors were eating meat over 2.5 million years ago. We mainly ate meat, fish, fruits, vegetables and nuts. We have to assume our physiology evolved in association with this diet. The balanced diet for our species was what we could acquire then, not what the government and doctors tell us to eat now.

Linus Pauling

I hear from patients who say their doctor said, 'If you want to take Vitamin C, go ahead and do it. It won't harm you, and it may do you some good.' More and more physicians are getting convinced about the value of large doses of Vitamin C.

Lindsay Wagner

If I was not an actress, I would be a homeopathic doctor.

Elizabeth Gilbert

A lot of [erotica] was really interestingly disguised in the 19th-century as medical journals. So it would be in the voice of a learned doctor talking about somebody's pathologies. And then it would get really detailed. And then it would get really sweaty. And then you're like, "This isn't a doctor! I would like to see a degree, Mister!"

Elisabeth Sladen

I love radio, and I haven't done it - other than the actual 'Doctor Who' - for so long now. It takes a different kind of discipline and a different kind of enjoyment, really.

Josh Holloway

I wanted to do everything. I wanted to be a pilot. I wanted to be a secret agent. I wanted to be a fireman and a doctor, all that. So I related that through movies and stuff.

Joshua Ferris

A dentist is only half the doctor he claims to be,