Assuming Quote by Ann Richards

As doctors, we are not trained to communicate and understand the power of our words as they relate to a patient's ability and desire…

— Bernie Siegel

Physicians can't really dictate our protocols. They can inform us to the extent that they can as to what would best serve us, because…

— Maya Tiwari

Many people are intimidated by doctors. ... People also feel stupid when they don't understand what a doctor's talking about the first time around,…

— Erma Bombeck

The doctor will persist in laboring under the delusion that patients want common sense instead of magic.

— Rae Foley

I am not a witch doctor, and in fact, you cannot have a witch doctor. You are either a witch or a doctor.

— Yahya Jammeh

But what physician has not had patients who don't make any sense at all? To tell the truth, they're our stock-in-trade. We talk and…

— Walker Percy

Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft

— George Bernard Shaw

Disease [is] as one of our languages. Doctors understand what disease has to say about itself. It's up to the person with the disease…

— Susanna Kaysen

You see, when medicine works, it is blessed science, and when it fails, it is witchcraft. - Polidori

— Kenneth Oppel

Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.

— Giordano Bruno

The witch doctor succeeds for the same reason all the rest of us succeed. Each patient carries his or her own doctor inside him…

— Albert Schweitzer

Physicians think they are doing something for you by labeling what you have as a disease

— Immanuel Kant