Doctors Quote by Anonymous

Insurance companies pay big bucks for procedures but next to nothing for patient consultations and preventive medicine, which is what most medicine is.

— Alex Gibney

Our doctor would never really operate unless it was necessary. He was just that way. If he didn't need the money, he wouldn't lay…

— Herb Shriner

No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr

Most people are squeamish about saying how much they earn, but in medicine the situation seems especially fraught. Doctors aren't supposed to be in…

— Atul Gawande

The vast majority of doctors really do try to take the money out of their minds. But to provide the best possible care requires…

— Atul Gawande

When a doctor refuses money, even the most ethical ones, you usually start driving a good bargain with the undertaker.

— Sue Sanders

The fact is, many poor patients visit ERs simply because they don't have a family doctor.

— Scott Gottlieb

Everybody in my family are doctors.

— Reshma Shetty

Medicine is for the patient. Medicine is for the people. It is not for the profits.

— George W. Merck

Many doctors pay their grocery bill with the money of folks who have eaten too much.

— Anonymous

It doesn't take a brain surgeon... or a cardiologist... or a pediatrician... or even a policy wonk to figure out that a penny's worth…

— Heidi Murkoff

What should be the glory of the profession is that a doctor should be able to meet his patients with no financial anxiety.

— Aneurin Bevan