Doctor Quotes · Page 42

Too much of anything can make you sick, even the good can be a curse - Cheryl Cole

— Cheryl Cole

“As with many life-altering events, an autoimmune illness is almost guaranteed to cause you to re-evaluate your priorities.”

— Joan Friedlander

Although you feel tepid, approach with confidence, for the greater your infirmity the more you stand in need of a physician.

— Bonaventure

We're always sick and we just don't know it. What we mean by health is only when our constant physical deterioration is…

— Steve Toltz

“I began to realize that I knew more about endometriosis than my doctor did.”

— Bethany Stahl

First, modify the patient's diet and lifestyle and only then, if these do not effect a cure, treat with medicinals and acupuncture.

— Sun Simiao

It's funny: when I first started getting vocal about how much I liked 'Doctor Who,' I didn't realize how deep the fan…

— Chris Hardwick

What do I want in a doctor? Perhaps more than anything else-a friend with special knowledge.

— John Steinbeck

A lot of the work I did with WWE had very strong comic book ties that were more than just a wink…

— Cody Rhodes

I was going through this identity crisis of being like, 'I don't think I want to be a doctor anymore.' And, 'oh…

— Bowen Yang

“I'm not good with hospitals. The endless buildings, trees dotted around like apologies, and inside, it's job functions you can't understand and…

— Harry Bingham

I refer to myself as an actor. I mean, why is there an 'actor' and an 'actress' when there is no 'doctor'…

— Shefali Shah

As a novelist, I like the contained drama and complexity of the courtroom, though I don't watch those shows on TV. I…

— Elizabeth Strout

In the United States, I am often addressed as a doctor. I should like to point out, however, that I am not…

— Hermann Oberth

Because we are interested in promoting wellness, we will integrate medicine with performing arts, arts and crafts, agriculture, recreation, nature, and social…

— Patch Adams

I think modern medicine has become like a prophet offering a life free of pain. It is nonsense. The only thing I…

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

In the past, [medicalization]has been portrayed as something that doctors inflict on a passive and un-suspecting world - an expansion of the…

— Ben Goldacre

“Mayo also has standards for how its physicians communicate with one another (for instance, when paged, they must respond immediately) and how…

— Anonymous

I had scarcely met Stephen, and then one Saturday I met some old friends for coffee, and they were saying, 'Gosh it's…

— Jane Hawking

I gave my father a heart attack. It was a practical joke. Come on, you push a guy's face in a cake…

— Christopher Titus

Managers of hospitals over the years have been increasingly recruited from outside the health service, and although their experience of running a…

— Jo Brand

Most people are squeamish about saying how much they earn, but in medicine the situation seems especially fraught. Doctors aren't supposed to…

— Atul Gawande

It is sometimes asserted that a surgical operation is or should be a work of art ... fit to rank with those…

— Wilfred Trotter

“I'm very glad you asked me that, Mrs Rawlinson. The term 'holistic' refers to my conviction that what we are concerned with…

— Douglas Adams

I don't think people realise how important it is to have your blood pressure checked. Stroke is so sudden, so catastrophic.

— Miriam Margolyes

Doctors can predict these things [tumors] just as long as they get access to people.

— John Newman

“If you trust Google more than your doctor then maybe it's time to switch doctors.”

— Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.

— Thomas Fuller

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

— Pearl S. Buck

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

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

— Mikhail Varshavski

“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

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

— Michael Greger

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

— Georgia Harkness

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

— Jackie Mason

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

— Carmel Sheridan

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

— Anonymous