Doctor Quotes · Page 59

The most critical key to getting good medial care is a trusting relationship between you and your doctor.

— Leana S. Wen

Asking for help doesn't mean your doctor is incompetent; rather, it should increase your faith in his or her abilities and humility.

— Leana S. Wen

Who wants to get a worse diagnosis of their cancer, just to keep a human doctor in the job?

— Vivienne Ming

We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.

— M. Scott Peck

Remember, I'm a doctor's daughter. So obviously I'm interested in all medical things.

— Nancy Reagan

First off, I could never become a doctor. Blood? Even the fake blood on 'American Horror Story,' I'm kind of ready to…

— Taissa Farmiga

Sometimes comfort zones are the best. Sometimes discomfort is just what the doctor ordered.

— Aesop Rock

Life is so delicate. If only people can see life longer, doctors will have faith for any agonize person.

— Melchor Lim

The thing you see in survivors is that they express feelings - I won't say some of the things they tell their…

— Bernie Siegel

Ever tried to get sleep in a hospital? Ever wonder if anyone even taught them what care is? Some hospitals are great,…

— Dave deBronkart

Doctors are so narrow-minded and brief with their patients these days you practically have to diagnose yourself before you go to the…

— Anonymous

You ever get sick and one of your friends gives you medical advice? And they tell you that they're not a doctor…

— Dom Irrera

I remember talking to Magic the day I announced I had HIV. He was preaching, 'Do what your doctor tells you.' Well,…

— Tommy Morrison

Disease is surely one of the ways in which we are tried by life and offered the chance to be heroic. Though…

— Bernie Siegel M.D

I wasn't a kid who wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a doctor. I was kind of morbid. I…

— Jennifer Egan

Being Doctor Who, I used to look at the clock and know at half past four we were going to stop rehearsing…

— Tom Baker

“But the story of leukemia--the story of cancer--isn't the story of doctors who struggle and survive, moving from institution to another. It…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

All disease, at some period or other of its course, is more or less a reparative process, not necessarily accompanied with suffering:…

— Florence Nightingale

I destroyed all my geek stuff because I didn't want to be a geek, and I regret it to this day. Consumed…

— Peter Capaldi

Part of my training was learning how to refer patients to cardiologists for heart problems, gastroenterologists for stomach issues, and rheumatologists for…

— Mark Hyman

But too often the goal of the planners is a universal gray state of health corresponding to absence of disease rather than…

— Rene Dubos

My agent said the part was that of an eccentric old grandfather-come-professor type who travels in space and time. Well, I wasn't…

— William Hartnell

I love ghost stories, and I also have a great fondness and love for 'Quatermass,' which in many ways is the show…

— Neil Cross

Illness is the result of imbalance. Imbalance is a result of forgetting who you are. Forgetting who you are creates thoughts and…

— Barbara Brennan

The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.

— Paracelsus

Many hospitals have no room 13, while some tall buildings skip the 13th floor and some airline terminals omit Gate 13.

— Anonymous

the vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.

— Pearl S. Buck

As a doctor, my thing is, we need to have access to medications; we need to have reasonable prices for medications.

— Mikhail Varshavski

a sick society, unlike a sick individual, fares best under the ministration of many doctors.

— Georgia Harkness

“state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”

— Michael Greger

“Administering medications is the nursing activity most associated with errors.”

— Carmel Sheridan

It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

— Jackie Mason

“True creativity in medicine doesn't take place within disciplines so much as it does at the boundaries between disciplines.”

— Toby Cosgrove

I'll tell you something, Doctor. Something that I've never told you before: I think you're wrong.

— Donna Noble

I'm not against high-tech medicine. It has a secure place in the diagnosis and treatment of serious disease.

— Andrew Weil

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

In an area where nothing was known, medicine had to draw on social lore.

— Anonymous

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.

— Sophocles

Doctors say it's okay to have sex after a heart attack, provided you close the ambulance door.

— Phyllis Diller

Somewhere in the world is...The world's worst doctor and he could be yours.

— Steve Martin