Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isiah Thomas

If there's any player that should feel safe and secure right now about his heart, it's Eddy. He's probably been tested and seen more doctors about his heart than any player in the NBA.

Richard Selzer

If people understood that doctors weren't divine, perhaps the odor of malpractice might diminish.

If you explain to a patient what can be done and what might be the downsides, let the patient choose; don't have ethicists, priests, or doctors say you may or may not have replacement cells.

J. D. Salinger

But doctors talk about cells as if they had such unlimited importance all by themselves. As if they didn't really belong to the person that has them." Teddy brushed back his hair from his forehead with one hand. "I grew my own body," he said. "Nobody else did it for me. So if I grew it, I must have known how to grow it. Unconsciously, at least. I may have lost the conscious knowledge of how to grow it sometime in the last few hundred thousand years, but the knowledge is still there, because—obviously—I've used it.

Isabel Wilkerson

There were colored and white waiting rooms everywhere, from doctor's offices to the bus stations, as people may already know. But there were actually colored windows at the post office in, for example, Pensacola, Florida. And there were white and colored telephone booths in Oklahoma. And there were separate windows where white people and black people would go to get their license plates in Indianola, Mississippi. And there were even separate tellers to make your deposits at the First National Bank in Atlanta.

Isabel Wilkerson

Anything that could be conceived of that would separate black people from white people was devised and codified by someone in some state in the South. There were colored and White waiting rooms everywhere, from doctor's offices to the bus stations, as people may already know.

Jack Kevorkian

My intent was to carry out my duty as a doctor, to end their suffering. Unfortunately, that entailed, in their cases, ending of the life.

Jack Kevorkian

In quixotically trying to conquer death doctors all too frequently do no good for their patients' ease but at the same time they do harm instead by prolonging and even magnifying patients' dis-ease.

Ginny Brown-Waite

Part of the redesign of FEMA is that they have so many people on standby, whether it is a retired nurse or a doctor who will take time off to go exactly where they are needed.

Felipe Alou

He's still in the hands of the trainers and doctors. When we're given the green light, we'll stick him in there.

Michael Vick

I'll be ready to play next week, the way it feels right now and what the doctors are telling me.

I'll talk with trainers, doctors, coaches, but I'm looking to play.

Florida doctors are still paying the highest insurance rates in the nation, and it's little solace that doctors don't have to pay any more.

David Toms

First let me thank all the doctors and staff at Pittsburgh's UPMC-Presbyterian University Hospital,

Doctors were hovered around, watching his every move and every monitor. There were so many, they had to stand in the corridor.

Jeremy Bonderman

Doctors say the infection has not spread to his chest,

Doctors just aren't doing (education) anymore, ... They're not sitting down and giving knowledge to women.

Doctors have indicated that the surgery was performed as expected without incident.

Doctors and undertakers/ Fear epidemics of good health.

Glenn Roeder

We are still waiting for confirmation but all the signs are that Scott has got glandular fever. Doctors don't like to say anything until test results come back, but that is what we are expecting.

We have done everything medically we could do. We have doctors trained in emergency medicine, in heart problems and other specialties standing by at every game. It's not just internists. It's people who know what to do in every emergency. It just wasn't enough.

We're going to be proactive. In schools, you treat things like medical doctors you observe, diagnose, and prescribe.

Peri Gilpin

Years ago, I did an interview about my mother for a publication called 'Info' magazine, and during that interview I told the reporter about my mother's leiomyosarcoma. She had had a hysterectomy, but at the time of it, the doctors didn't even think to look for sarcoma.

Mike Huckabee

I hurt my knee, and that messed up my running, and boy did that ever just have a cascade effect. I've gained about thirty pounds that my doctors have screamed at me about. I've got to get that off, and I know that.

Larry Brown

We gave him as much time as we possibly could, but the doctors aren't going to let him play if they think he's going to do any damage. So we'll just get straight about what's going on. From what they tell me, it's about pain.

Tommy Thompson

We have 6,000 in the commissioned corps, medical professionals that are able to move in. We have over several hundred in CDC, several hundred doctors and professionals and scientists in at NIH.

Sandra Pupatello

We can not have physicians in a position, as we're hearing and as doctors are telling us, to feel intimidated or threatened in any way to sign forms if in fact these people do not meet those medical conditions,

Bernie Sanders

Look, if you have somebody who doesn't have health insurance, who doesn't have a doctor or dentist, and in order to deal with their cold or flu or dental problem, they go to an emergency room - in general, that visit will cost ten times more than walking into a community health center.

We'll have to wait and see when we get back to Pittsburgh what the team doctors say.

There is something amiss when that many doctors suddenly say, 'We're quitting your panel,'

Two doctors are responsible for his recovery, and it goes very well.

The scars have considerably healed. The doctors are confident.

Fidel Castro

These doctors could all already be there providing their services,