A person on dialysis undergoes very heavy and irritating treatment, and in time, it seems more than you can bear. — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
“Well,” he said, “the downside of having no barriers between doctors and patients was that everyone became a patient.” There” — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
There are only two sorts of doctors; those who practise with their brains, and those who practise with their tongues. — William Osler Copy Share Image
If all power corrupts, then a doctor, who literally holds life and death in his hands, must be at particular risk. — P. D. James Copy Share Image
I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I… — Samuel Barber Copy Share Image
I think if I took therapy, the doctor would quit. He'd just pick up the couch and walk out of the room. — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
I thought I wanted to be a pediatrician because, as a second job, my mother would clean up a pediatrician's office. So… — Angela Bassett Copy Share Image
The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The Doctor: Rose... before I go, I just want to tell you: you were fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. And do you know what?… — Russell T Davies Copy Share Image
I'm always calling my doctor because I'm constantly injuring myself while on the road, like tearing a ligament, blasting my ears or… — Mika Copy Share Image
I think we are faced in medicine with the reality that we have to be willing to talk about our failures and… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
I thought it was going to be a hut in Topanga and Janis Joplin was going to come out, but it's a… — Simon Helberg Copy Share Image
In March I had a minor heart attack while I was vacationing in Australia. it scared me, but it was nothing compared… — Richard Pryor Copy Share Image
“Did you know that Jacques Benveniste, one of the world's leading homeopathic "scientists," now claims that you can *email* homeopathic remedies? Yeah,… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“State sponsored medicine and science can function as ideology, inspiring blind commitment, fanatical defensiveness and denial, particularly of outcomes inconsistent with the… — Daniel Waterman Copy Share Image
“tonsils or half the appendix risks as much infection or shock as if he did the whole job. And he has not… — Peter F. Drucker Copy Share Image
In a word, I consider hospitals only as the entrance to scientific medicine; they are the first field of observation which a… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
All you have to do is send a message or somehow establish communication between the mind and body of the sick person.… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
If you put a much older woman in 'Doctor Who,' they can identify with it. I think it's quite an interesting concept,… — Kate O'Mara Copy Share Image
The sick man is taken away by the institution that takes charge not of the individual, but of his illness, an isolated… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
“JD: Anyway, I tried to convince myself the reason that I didn't come earlier was because of you coming into work drunk.… — Bill Lawrence Copy Share Image