patients saw their health improve if they did volunteer…

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