Doctor Quotes · Page 43

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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

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

— Sophocles

Without knowing the cause of illness, any treatment must be considered a guess.

— Richard Diaz

The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.

— Hippocrates

In my third year at medical school in Birmingham, I joined the Air Force as a medical cadet so that I was…

— Jed Mercurio

Preventive medicine isn't part of a physician's everyday routine, which is spent dispensing drugs and performing surgery.

— Deepak Chopra

I never was a person that said, 'I'm gonna be a rapper.' I thought I would be a doctor. I just knew…

— Remy Ma

Unfortunately in my case, because of what I do for living, here in Ireland is very hard for me to find a…

— Sinead O'Connor

We know from our clinical experience in the practice of medicine that in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment, the individual and his background…

— Paul Dudley White

“Calling holistic medicine "alternative medicine" is no longer appropriate. The best approach now is "integrated medicine" in which we take the best…

— Candess M. Campbell

I'd like to see more Asian-American roles where the ethnicity of the character can be swapped to another. We can, of course,…

— Karen Fukuhara

When you're dealing with a very sick person and you're doing something to them, an intervention, be it a procedure or a…

— Anthony Fauci

The long-term benefit of homeopathy to the patient is that it not only alleviates the presenting symptoms but it reestablishes internal order…

— George Vithoulkas

With 'Little Accidents', I spent probably three months working with a physical therapist, just understanding, starting from square one, about the neurological…

— Boyd Holbrook

For me, I think that there's a lot missing from the recovery or the post-diagnosis side of treating patients. Once the diagnosis…

— Susannah Cahalan

“You learn it when you become a doctor. Not in school—that isn’t where you learn, in any case—but when you lay your…

— Diana Gabaldon

“the artery supplying the front (anterior) wall of Cheney’s heart, the left anterior descending (LAD), did not have significant narrowing. Absent a…

— Dick Cheney

When you're confined to a hospital bed, there aren't many appointments you can make. You await visits from friends and family members.…

— Josh Gondelman

“This skewing of physicians' thinking leads to poor care. What is remarkable is not merely the consequences of a doctor's negative emotions.…

— Anonymous

Imagine a world in which medicine was oriented toward healing rather than disease, where doctors believed in the natural healing capacity of…

— Andrew Weil

Doctor Johnson said, that in sickness there were three things that were material; the physician, the disease, and the patient: and if…

— Francis Bacon

Wheeled in on a cart, lying dormant not dead, Hospital of immortality, butcher their patients bloody red, Taken to a dark room,…

— Young Dro

“I have a theory that doctors are permanently tired as they are always fighting off some new virus to which they have…

— Rosamund Kendal

Doctors think a lot of patients are cured who have simply quit in disgust.

— Herbert Hoover

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

When a doctor is performing an operation, his mind cannot be somewhere else.

— Freida Pinto

With 'Cardiac Arrest,' I wanted to show that there were times when doctors really didn't care.

— Jed Mercurio

DIAGNOSIS, n. A physician's forecast of disease by the patient's pulse and purse.

— Ambrose Bierce

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

— Nancy Reagan

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

— Melchor Lim

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

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

There is a great difference between a good physician and a bad one; yet very little between a good one and none…

— Arthur Young

I do not trust doctors. They are like golfers. Every one has a different answer to your problems.

— Seve Ballesteros

The need is to recognize that The patient is the healer, Not the doctor.

— Norman Cousins