Doctor Quotes · Page 43

Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.

— George Bernard Shaw

We are lucky in Chapel Hill to have the most brilliant medical people anywhere in the country.

— Mack Brown

I've had the most wonderful plastic surgery career a doctor ever got to have and I do the hardest cases in the…

— Terry Dubrow

Reproof is a medicine, like mercury or opium; if it be improperly administered, it will do harm instead of good.

— Horace Mann

There are many other possibilities more enlightening than the struggle to become the local doctor's most affluent ulcer case.

— Nelson Rockefeller

“Remember, I’m a doctor. I know at least 3 ways to kill you without leaving a trace. Nx”

— Ruth Ware

Mr. Steven Bochco is a very wise man. After a many-monthed nationwide search to find a precocious teenage doctor, he hired me.

— Neil Patrick Harris

Preventives of evil are far better than remedies; cheaper and easier of application, and surer in result.

— Tryon Edwards

“Do you honestly want to get well? If the answer is no, then you’re juicing the payoffs and won’t truly get well…

— Catherine Carrigan

I made it to the NFL and I had an injury, a really bad injury, actually, where I was out for 18…

— Mojo Rawley

The moment this brilliant young producer Miss Verity Lambert started telling me about Doctor Who, I was hooked. I remember telling her,…

— William Hartnell

It's usually the stupid people that develop long illnesses. You need more than indolence and selfishness, you need endurance to make a…

— W. H. Auden

“Regaining health is more difficult an objective then becoming ill. Becoming ill is a random act of ignorance and regaining health is…

— Richard Diaz

There is only one healing force, and that is nature; in pills and ointments there is none. At most they can give…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I truly feel the best doctors are ones who are criticized by nurses, patients and family. They do not make excuses and…

— Bernie Siegel

I had a big lump in my throat, I could see it and I didn't do anything about it. Eventually, I went…

— Peaches

I was born with a heart murmur. When I was 21, the stress of the career and traveling - the lack of…

— Brian Littrell

My best friends when I was young were always doctors. I used to dress up in a white gauze helmet and go…

— Sylvia Plath

I had COVID a week before they made the announcement. I couldn't breathe and I couldn't tell if it was my heart…

— Bez

Seldom in the history of medicine has the recognition of the most effective cure followed as swiftly on the heels of the…

— Emil Theodor Kocher

A hospital is like a war zone, and in 'Sanjivani' we show the innards of a hospital, including the commercial aspect -…

— Mohnish Bahl

“The basic principle of health, well-being, and the action of healing is the presumption of prior perfection rather than the motivating problem.…

— Adi Da Samraj

As a matter of principle, we believe patients should be able to see the right doctor at the right time. As a…

— Bill Frist

I just try to be in tune with my body. If I start to feel sick, I will try to catch it…

— Gigi Hadid

“There is a very strange and undetectable sickness in the modern population that responds to huge doses of vitamin B12.”

— Steven Magee

It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners…

— Jesus Christ

Sometimes the world is so much sicker than the inmates of its institutions.

— Joanne Greenberg

Listening leads to better care, and your doctor should make an effort to hear you out and learn about you.

— Leana S. Wen

The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine.

— Alastair Campbell

I'm a middle aged businessman with chronic heart disease. I'm another teenaged suicide in a street that has no trees.

— Ub40

Patients who trust their doctors and have a psychological expectation of getting better could trigger a reaction in their body.

— Irving Kirsch

The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those of the body. [Lat., Morbi perniciores pluresque animi quam corporis.]

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“He was an arsehole like that. It was entirely because of good manners that I didn't punch him in the face.”

— Kuansiew

Doctors can do almost anything nowadays, can't they, unless they kill you while they're trying to cure you.

— Agatha Christie

What you have to do if you are going to treat any disease is get to the root of the disease.

— Ron Rosedale

If you have a friend who is a doctor, then send him to your enemys house.

— Vikrant Parsai

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

— Voltaire

I always wanted to follow in the footsteps of my maternal grandfather, who was a doctor.

— Hasnat Khan

I'm a strong believer in modern medicine. I think it has its use in society. I think it adds longevity to our…

— Rob Van Dam

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

— Oliver Sacks