Doctor Quotes · Page 74

Medicine is intention. Those who are proficient at using intention are good doctors.

— Sun Simiao

The treatments themselves do not 'cure' the condition, they simply restore the body's self-healing ability.

— Leon Chaitow

Not to employ prayer with my patients was the equivalent of deliberately withholding a potent drug or surgical procedure.

— Larry Dossey

'Doctor Who' is really challenging and fulfilling on so many levels.

— Alex Kingston

'The Brady Bunch' asks nothing of you as a viewer. Sometimes is just what the doctor ordered.

— Seth MacFarlane

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will involve the patient in the proper use of food, fresh air…

— Thomas A. Edison

“Good doctors understands responsibility better than privilege and practice accountability better than business.”

— Dr. Sheetu Singh

You don't brag about putting someone in hospital. It's absolutely horrible.

— Tony Bellew

A man who cannot work without his hypodermic needle is a poor doctor. The amount of narcotic you use is inversely proportional…

— Martin H. Fischer

I really ran away in 1951 from South Africa, where I lived with my mother and father - who was a doctor…

— Nigel Hawthorne

People say that the most expensive piece of medical equipment is the doctor's pen. It's not that we make all the money.…

— Atul Gawande

There are lots of procedural shows that I love, but I never really wanted to be a doctor on 'E.R.' - which…

— Stephen Moyer

Every Kentuckian deserves to be able to visit the doctor and get the treatment they need, and no one should have to…

— Amy McGrath

I've tried to start my kids on 'Doctor Who,' but they're just not there yet. Someone had given me these TARDIS stick-em…

— Kristian Bush

We'd like to have immediate answers to all of our questions. I think medicine in particular. I found it frustrating as a…

— Laurel Clark

“The most powerful and most deceptive medical lie of all, is that your doctor knows everything there is to know about your…

— Ken D. Berry

I was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADD/ADHD) and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) as an adult, but I don't remember a time…

— Howie Mandel

When you see those in healthcare who don't get this burn-out, they are very motherly, fatherly, or loving and attentive with the…

— Matthieu Ricard

When you have a diagnosis of cancer, or any serious illness, your choices are basically to be passive and kind of accept…

— Hamilton Jordan

“The first meeting I really remember with the good doctor was when I was starting to be able to speak English again…

— Mark Vonnegut

And it has been sarcastically said, that there is a wide difference between a good physician and a bad one, but a…

— Gilbert Blane

Health is wholeness--wholeness in its most profound sense, with nothing left out and everything in just the right order to manifest the…

— Andrew Weil

I've been fortunate to play many different types of characters thus far. However, I really enjoy playing roles that are different than…

— Gina Holden

It is therefore absurd to approach the subject of health piecemeal with a departmentalized band of specialists. A medical doctor uninterested in…

— Wendell Berry

Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.

— Hippocrates

My father, who grew up picking olives on the Greek island of Lesbos, was a doctor. So my family expected me to…

— Peter Diamandis

I once thought about being a doctor, but then I'd have to work for a living.

— Julie Foudy

Just using a checklist requires [doctors] to embrace different values from ones we've had, like humility, discipline, teamwork.

— Atul Gawande

No doctor is going to tell me I can't finish the Tour. I will never give up.

— Eddy Merckx

Sometimes I don't even accept the simplest medical treatment, such as, for example, the anti-flu vaccine.

— Edgar Davids

A thing that makes me laugh is, any time I go to the legitimate doctor, they call me Dr. Halstead.

— Nick Gehlfuss

I'm the son of a doctor, and the key to working in the art world is to have boundaries of discretion.

— Alexander Gilkes

I can never express my gratitude enough to the doctor who told me that I needed to turn to music.

— Melody Gardot

“First lesson taught to doctors in medical college: "Be emotional about the disease, not the patient.”

— Durjoy Datta

Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick.

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

Twenty-first century medicine must not be confined to a twentieth-century bureaucracy.

— Charles W. Pickering

I always liked 'Doctor Who' but I wasn't a crazed fan when I was a kid.

— Daniel Mays

“Other doctors lose as many patients as I do, he would say. But with me they die happier.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

The doctor is not a miracle worker who can magically save us but, rather, an expert adviser who can assist us in…

— Michael Crichton

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

— Hester Lynch Piozzi