I'm not a doctor or scientist. I'm just a mom. But I do think there's a genetic predisposition, and there are environmental… — Holly Robinson Peete Copy Share Image
“[T]he greatest danger to your health is the doctor who practices Modern Medicine.” Robert Mendelsohn, M.D. Confessions of a Medical Heretic” — Raymond Francis Copy Share Image
A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
Many people are intimidated by doctors. ... People also feel stupid when they don't understand what a doctor's talking about the first… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of 'medicine.' That's something you might remind your New Age… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
A patient had a 50-50 chance of benefiting from visiting a physician as of 1910. Medicine was more like voodoo than science… — Abraham Flexner Copy Share Image
I know theater can improve the quality of people's lives, and I know theater can heal. I've worked as a doctor clown… — Natasha Tsakos Copy Share Image
In many ways I was lucky: my dad had a quadruple bypass in his fifties. When I had the heart stents, the… — Paul Whitehouse Copy Share Image
“Many buy gadgets they don’t really need, with money they don’t have, for people they don’t actually care for, while infringing their… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
You have to enjoy the pressure because it's not like we are doctors doing surgery. You make a mistake as a doctor… — Jannik Sinner Copy Share Image
I've never bought this idea of taking a therapeutic distance. If I see a student or house staff cry, I take great… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Hospitals are places that you have to stay in for a long time, even if you are a visitor. Time doesn't seem… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Too often, hospital staff are incented by management to get work done without worrying about care, and clinicians are too often not… — Dave deBronkart Copy Share Image
If you want to be an actress or an astronaut or a doctor or anything in between, I just want to let… — Storm Reid Copy Share Image
The physicians belief in the treatment and the patients faith in the physician exert a mutually reinforcing effect; the result is a… — Petr Skrabanek Copy Share Image
He said that private practice in medicine ought to be put down by law. When I asked him why, he said that… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient is not by staring at the computer screen but by going… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Retirement shouldn't be making the choice between buying much-needed medication or putting food on the table; making the choice between heating an… — Letitia James Copy Share Image
I had this childhood dream that I wanted to be a doctor, but I came from a neighborhood and an environment where… — Leana S. Wen Copy Share Image
“And as for those high school students who tell me they would rather be a cat than an MD because they prefer… — Nick Trout Copy Share Image
Health is not an objective condition which can be understood by the methods of natural science alone. It is rather a condition… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
When I was about 3 months pregnant, I was running, looked down, and there was blood everywhere. I totally freaked out, but… — Amy Locane Copy Share Image
“When you have an invisible disease, your sickness isn’t your biggest problem. What you end up battling more than anything else, every… — Heidi Cullinan Copy Share Image
I don't want to make a big deal out of the heart stents. When the guy did it he said, 'I didn't… — Paul Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Health is more than the absence of disease. Health is about jobs and employment, education, the environment, and all of those things… — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
The downside to becoming a doctor, I think, is it's a very long process; four years of medical school, three years of… — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
I'm a family doctor, and a big part of what I do is preventative care, and breast cancer is one of the… — Mikhail Varshavski Copy Share Image
Medicine is not about conquering diseases and death, but about the alleviation of suffering, minimising harm, smoothing the painful journey of man… — Petr Skrabanek Copy Share Image
Illness is a part of every human being's experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The doctors will treat those of your citizens whose physical and psychological constitution is good: as for the others, they will leave… — Plato Copy Share Image
I'm fully aware that 'Doctor Who' will always, always be part of my life, and that's not something I would run away… — Freema Agyeman Copy Share Image
I am an advocate for going to the doctor and going every year. I make sure that part of the checkup is… — Andie MacDowell Copy Share Image
as the physicians say it happens in hectic fever, that in the beginning of the malady it is easy to cure but… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
A careful physician . . . before he attempts to administer a remedy to his patient, must investigate not only the malady… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
It took about six years to get the Black Lung stuff. It didn't come just instantly. Sometimes, I see lobby groups, today,… — Richard Grimes Copy Share Image
The true miracle of modern medicine is diabolical. It consists in making not only individuals but whole populations survive on inhumanly low… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
A doctor can only treat patients. A doctor can only help the people who are shot or who are injured. But a… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
A successful surgeon should be a man who, when asked to name the three best surgeons in the world, would have difficulty… — Denton Cooley Copy Share Image
“I'm a doctor," she reminded him. “Nothing embarrasses me.” “Yeah? So if I call the hospital while you’re making rounds, you won’t… — Julie Garwood Copy Share Image