Doctors Quote by Abraham Verghese

“Ignore ignorance? You might as well withhold medicine from a very sick patient. Not only will the patient get worse, the disease will spread.”

— Stifyn Emrys

“Physicians are so good at what they do these days that you hardly ever see anyone who’s healthy” is how he ended the consultation.…

— Hendrik Groen

“You tell them one real thing and then the doctor thinks he knows you. He starts getting arrogant and overfamiliar, making insulting suggestions left…

— Sarah Schulman

“He wasn’t acknowledging my self-diagnosis at all. What kind of doctor is this? ”

— Ree Drummond

“I’m now ‘Doctor’ to the patients and I have to cover my ignorance by waving my arms and looking grave.”

— Howard Florey

“He isn’t the kind of doctor you’d call if you’re sick. He is, however, the kind of doctor you’d call if you’re dead.”

— Sheldon Siegel

“Next day, after lunch, I went to see "our" doctor, a friendly fellow whose perfect bedside manner and complete reliance on a few patented…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Most medical personnel remain largely unfamiliar with non-medical treatments, and tend to dismiss them without knowing about what they're dismissing. This is a great…

— Andrew Saul

“Sooner or later, most of us will listen to a physician speak the name of our killer.”

— Randy Wayne White

“How do I validate him in the face of such profound personal loss and the outrageous denial by the medical community?”

— Mary Dimmock

“Is there anyone here who has a genuine medical problem?”

— Dr. Martin Ellingham

Dear doctor, you must not only let the patient tells his story, but you should also try to understand it.

— William C. Brown