Patient isn’t exactly a word in my vocabulary

Many patients imagine that they have tried everything. True, they have used many remedies, but they have never had the cause of their infirmity…

— Daniel D. Palmer

I think people need to be comfortable questioning the authority of a doctor.

— Susannah Cahalan

The doctor who diagnosed me with ALS, or motor neuron disease, told me that it would kill me in two or three years.

— Stephen Hawking

Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside.

— Albert Schweitzer

“As a special branch of general philosophy, pathogenesis had never been explored. In my opinion it had never been approached in a strictly scientific…

— Blaise Cendrars

A creative space is an important thing. There are so many studios that feel like doctor's offices in Nashville. I couldn't write there.

— Brad Paisley

We ought to observe that practice which is the hardest of all-especially for young physicians-we ought to throw in no medicine at all-to abstain-to…

— John Randolph of Roanoke

The miracle drugs (neuroleptics) cause the worst plague of brain damage in medical history.

— Peter Breggin

“old-fashioned, gentle Scottish physician, unmoved by the considerations of profit and personal gain that could so disfigure medicine. That doctors should consider themselves businessmen…

— Alexander McCall Smith

I've never bought this idea of taking a therapeutic distance. If I see a student or house staff cry, I take great faith in…

— Abraham Verghese

Heart surgeons do not have the world's smallest egos: when you ask them to name the world's three leading practitioners, they never can remember…

— Sara Paretsky

Thankfully, I found a doctor at Presbyterian Hospital in New York, Scott Hammer, who diagnosed my chronic fatigue as the Epstein-Barr virus, and the…

— Tucker Halpern

My parents are so supportive of whatever we want to do and completely nurtured that, and they're so proud of that as well. My…

— Hannah John-Kamen

Before we can wave the handkerchief, we have to have a cold.

— Robert D Dangoor

Tuberculosis, starvation, fatigue, and there are many who have no desire to live.

— Edward R. Murrow