Doctor Quotes · Page 63

“We all knew no respectable physician would remove my fingers just for the asking, and we had no time anyway.”

— Kenneth Oppel

“If mankind could possess only one, what is more valuable, an inexhaustible energy source or a drug that cures all disease?”

— Jay Allan

I've been a doctor for years why do I have to keep assuring people I know what I'm doing?

— Dr Gregory House

Given where medicine is today, there may not be any traditional injuries that aren't repairable.

— Oliver Luck

“But a person is so much more than the name of a diagnosis on a chart!”

— Atheneum Books for Young Readers

You should treat as many patients as possible with the new drugs while they still have the power to heal.

— Armand Trousseau

I would have loved to have been science-minded enough to be in the caring profession - either as a doctor or nurse…

— Sue Perkins

Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching.

— P. T. Barnum

After I had gone through this matter with the President I told him of my condition of health and that my doctors…

— Henry L. Stimson

For the first few months, I was a comically inept parent. The first night home from the hospital, I held her bare…

— Nick Flynn

Doctors still retain a high degree of public confidence because they are perceived as healers. Should lawyers not be healers? Healers, not…

— Warren E. Burger

I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. I was like, 'I'm going to be a doctor!' Doctor…

— Luvvie Ajayi

Medical practice is not knitting and weaving and the labor of the hands, but it must be inspired with soul and be…

— Maimonides

By keeping my hand in that, it's the way I keep learning. The main way you learn in medicine is by practicing…

— Andrew Weil

The more fashionable doctors in Italy, began to delegate to slaves the manual attentions they deemed necessary for their patients ... that…

— Andreas Vesalius

And how comfortless is the thought that the sickness of the normal does not necessarily imply as its opposite the health of…

— Theodor Adorno

If a hundred or a thousand people, all of the same age, of the same constitution and habits, were suddenly seized by…

— Petrarch

To me, it feels like 'The Doctor' has to have a long coat, and that's something imprinted on me from childhood, because…

— David Tennant

It is not a nature cure, a system of faith healing, or a physical culture, or a medical treatment, or a semi-occult…

— John Dewey

When I taught writing classes to psychiatric patients, I met people whose stories of manic highs and immobilizing lows appeared to be…

— Siri Hustvedt

“There is no physician like Him, none can save as He can; we love Him, and He loves us, and therefore we…

— Charles Spurgeon

The ordinary patient goes to his doctor because he is in pain or some other discomfort and wants to be comfortable again;…

— Wilfred Trotter

What I learned from my work as a physician is that even with the most complicated patients, the most complicated problems, you've…

— Jim Yong Kim

I think doctors are really suffering now. They're suffering in the sense that they feel torn between serving their patients in the…

— Marcia Angell

I can get a good doctor in a minute and a half. Getting a really good electrician - that's hard.

— Charles Murray

I think you can tell different types of stories within a 'Doctor Who' two-parter.

— Chris Chibnall

I wanted Jeev to become doctor or an engineer, but after seeing his talent and interest in golf, I dropped that idea.

— Milkha Singh

It seems that for many the cure to acne is at the end of their fork, not in a prescription pad.

— Anonymous

The technique of a mass movement aims to infect people with a malady and then offer the movement as a cure.

— Eric Hoffer

For the concept of a circuit of the blood does not destroy, but rather advances traditional medicine.

— William Harvey

If ever there was a character that was never defined by gender, it's the Doctor. The Doctor is gender fluid in that…

— Chris Chibnall

The tools used by the surgeons must be adapted to the task and where the human brain is concerned they cannot be…

— Lars Leksell

This diagnosis can be done in about two lines. It doesn't engage anybody.

— David Foster Wallace

Disease is a physical process that generally begins that equality which death completes

— Samuel Johnson

The fact that your patient gets well does not prove that your diagnosis was correct.

— Samuel James Meltzer

I probably went all the way to junior high school before a school doctor told me that I was 'dyslexic.'

— Caitlyn Jenner

I was never going to be a doctor or a lawyer, so being a musician seemed to be the best of what…

— Lemmy

A mind ill with negative attitudes is more dangerous than a sick body, for its sickness is always contagious.

— Napoleon Hill

One of the worst diseases to which the human creature is liable is its disease of thinking.

— John Ruskin

People need to take a tonsilectomy seriously. It can be life threatening.

— Tish Cyrus