Doctor Quotes · Page 57

Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

My mum wanted me to be a doctor like my dad, and at 7, I really wanted to be a politician, and…

— Leo Varadkar

What I'd love to do is every now and then go, 'Oh my God, I've got this amazing idea for 'Doctor Who.'

— Neil Gaiman

I think people need to be comfortable questioning the authority of a doctor.

— Susannah Cahalan

He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors.

— Chinese Proverb

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of bandages and adhesive tape.

— Groucho Marx

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

— Redd Foxx

Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.

— Democritus

I went to multiple doctors to make sure that I'm taking the right anti-depression medication and make sure that my blood pressure's…

— Ashley Nell Tipton

Specifically, and contrary to misguided directives, I limited the broad use of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, promoted by the Administration as a panacea,…

— Rick Bright

“intended to be informative and educational. It is in no way meant to diagnose, treat or prevent any condition. It is not…

— Michael Jessimy

I'm not a doctor or scientist. I'm just a mom. But I do think there's a genetic predisposition, and there are environmental…

— Holly Robinson Peete

Too much of anything can make you sick. Even the good can be a curse, curse. Makes it hard to know which…

— Cheryl Cole

So much of what people think about when they think about health is primary care, but health is so much more than…

— Deray McKesson

I don't think it's ok to judge others and put people down. However, it should be ok to be concerned about the…

— Scott Herman

The Doctor' is the kind of character - because the guest cast is changing all the time, there are very few constants…

— David Tennant

“When a patient comes in with a fatal head bleed, that first conversation with a neurosurgeon may forever color how the family…

— Paul Kalanithi

In the field of medicine, if you're sick you need a doctor. A doctor has already studied how to deal with your…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

To have a group of cloistered clinicians away completely from the broad current of professional life would be bad for teacher and…

— William Osler

There cannot always be fresh fields of conquest by the knife; there must be portions of the human frame that will ever…

— John Eric Erichsen

The advanced members of the medical profession know that the health of society is not to be obtained or maintained by medicines;…

— Robert Owen

“People tend to forget they are patients. Once they leave the doctor’s office or the hospital, they simply put it out of…

— Don DeLillo

I have long been an ardent believer in the science of Homeopathy and I feel happy that it has got now a…

— Rabindranath Tagore

As we get better at reversing aging it will be possible to take one medicine and within weeks feel and even look…

— David Andrew Sinclair

Illness and death are not optional. Patients have a right to determine how they approach them.

— Marcia Angell

I was intubated, I was on a ventilator with a tracheotomy, I mean, there were so many things going on.

— Al B. Sure

The superior doctor prevents sickness; The mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; The inferior doctor treats actual sickness.

— Chinese Proverb

When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.

— Anton Chekhov

“That’s the one thing I think my head doctor might be right about. There’s no going back. So we might as well…

— Suzanne Collins

I didn't think I was going to school to be a doctor - no offense, but that wasn't me.

— Gerald Green

Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer…

— Erma Bombeck

“I told a doctor once, "Doc, if you want to know what's inside of me, put down the x-ray and pick up…

— Gerard de Marigny

If not music, I think it would be pretty cool to be an ear, nose and throat doctor.

— David Archuleta

The diseases that we civilized people labor under most are melancholy and pessimism.

— Vincent Van Gogh

If it were not for the great variability among individuals, medicine might as well be a science, not an art.

— William Osler

“angry—angry that Henrietta’s cells were being sold for twenty-five dollars a vial, and angry that articles”

— Rebecca Skloot

It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying.

— Bill Vaughan

In a hospital, there's a lot of high-energy, seat-of-your-pants, in-the-moment things that need to be done.

— Nicholas Gonzalez

Sickness is a sort of early old age; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.

— Alexander Pope

A physician is an unfortunate gentleman who is every day required to perform a miracle; namely to reconcile health with intemperance.

— Voltaire