Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Carson McCullers

Don't you loathe it when doctors use the word 'we' when it applies only and solely to yourself?

Carson McCullers

Doctors, by God; washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair.

Al Franken

If 98 out of 100 doctors tell me I've got a problem, I should take their advice. And if those two other doctors get paid by Big Snack Food, like certain climate deniers get paid by Big Coal, I shouldn't take their advice.

Charles R. Swindoll

'We really shouldn't look like a church.' I've heard that so much I want to vomit. 'Why?' I ask. 'Do you want your bank to look like a bank? Do you want your doctor's office to look like a doctor's office, or would you prefer your doctor to dress like a clown?'

Charles Churchill

Most of those evils we poor mortals know From doctors and imagination flow.

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?

Conan O'Brien

Pamela Anderson Lee released a statement confirming that she has had her breast implants removed. Doctors say that Pamela is doing fine and that her old implants are now dating Charlie Sheen.

Conan O'Brien

Yesterday, Attorney General John Ashcroft had surgery to remove his gall bladder. Doctors say the surgery was difficult because Ashcroft refused to take his clothes off.

Luis Bunuel

In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Albert Schweitzer

The doctor of the future will be oneself.

Albert Camus

Who taught you all this, doctor?" The reply came promptly: "Suffering.

Albert Camus

After a short silence the doctor raised himself a little in his chair and asked if Tarrou had an idea of the path to follow for attaining peace. "Yes, he replied. "The path of sympathy.

Daniel Johns

So I went and visited a doctor and he diagnosed me with reactive arthritis.

Conor Oberst

We're all too busy working, entertaining ourselves With forty hours, television and prescription pills Well, I take two a day to help my brain behave It never does, but who's to say? At least my doctor gets paid.

Dan Buettner

A doctor may know more than a peasant, but a peasant and a doctor know more together.

David Foster Wallace

Everything gets horrible. Everything you see gets ugly. Lurid is the word. Doctor Garton said lurid, one time. That's the right word for it. And everything sounds harsh, spiny and harsh sounding, like every sound you hear all of a sudden has teeth. And smelling like I smell bad even after I just got out of the shower. It's like what's the point of washing if everything smells like I need another shower

Donna Summer

I realized that I had a serious problem with depression, and I went to a doctor and he gave me some medication.

Donna Shalala

I am interested in getting people to use the healthcare system at the right time, getting them to see the doctor early enough, before a small health problem turns serious.

Dylan Moran

It should not be an act of social disobedience to light a cigarette. Unless you're actually a doctor working at an incubator.

Andre Holland

People do come up to me quite a lot. I get called all of it. I rarely get called my name; it's usually "Hey, Dr. Edwards!" or "Algernon." The most common thing is, "You're the black doctor on that show!" I'll take any of it, because I've definitely been called much worse things.

Ann Richards

Doctors are our partners, and they need all the assistance we can give them to be sure we get the right diagnosis.

Aneurin Bevan

What should be the glory of the profession is that a doctor should be able to meet his patients with no financial anxiety.

Andrew Weil

It's rare - too rare, I have to say - for botanists to become doctors.

Chuck Grassley

The public relies on the advice of doctors and leading researchers. The public has a right to know about financial relationships between those doctors and the drug companies who make the pharmaceuticals prescribed by doctors.

Christopher Moore

The netherworld is timeless and unchanging, and boring -- much like a doctor's waiting room.

Alonzo Mourning

Once my doctor began treating my kidney disease, my greatest challenge was the constant exhaustion. Fortunately, my doctor explained that anemia was causing my exhaustion and that people with serious illnesses, like kidney disease, may be at increased risk for anemia.