Doctors Quotes

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The doctors take the bodily evidence as the disease. . . . disease is itself an impudent opinion. He throws off the feelings of the… — Phineas Quimby
The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he… — George Bernard Shaw
Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession. — George Bernard Shaw
Let no one suppose that the words doctor and patient can disguise from the parties the fact that they are employer and employee. — George Bernard Shaw
A doctor recently described to me "benign positional vertigo": it means you get dizzy in certain positions, but you can get over it without necessarily… — Mignon McLaughlin
When the pain is great enough, we will let anyone be doctor. — Mignon McLaughlin
Medicine is intention. Those who are proficient at using intention are good doctors. — Sun Simiao
I told the doctor I was overtired, anxiety-ridden, compulsively active, constantly depressed, with recurring fits of paranoia. Turns out I'm normal. — Jules Feiffer
Everyone who gives up a serious childhood dream -- of becoming an artist, a doctor, an engineer, an athlete -- lives the rest of their… — Glenn Kurtz
It is hard to say whether doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery. — Edmund Burke
Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients. — Hippocrates
Towns are full of people, houses full of tenants, hotels full of guests, trains full of travelers, cafés full of customers, parks full of promenaders,… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
The German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room? — Garry Trudeau
A book on cheap paper does not convince. It is not prized, it is like a wheezy doctor with pigtail tobacco breath, who needs a… — Elbert Hubbard
Every physician almost hath his favourite disease. — Henry Fielding
A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife. — Sophocles
I'd call it a new version of voodoo economics, but I'm afraid that would give witch doctors a bad name. — Geraldine Ferraro
I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician. I think it's very upfront. I am a doctor. I have long experience with heart disease. — Robert Jarvik
Lipitor is one of the most researched medicines. I'm glad I take Lipitor, as a doctor, and a dad. — Robert Jarvik
As a medical doctor who chose a career in artificial heart technology rather than clinical practice, I decided not to take an internship, which is… — Robert Jarvik
Isn't it a shame military doctors couldn't be as good as military sunglasses? — Pat Conroy
What do I want in a doctor? Perhaps more than anything else-a friend with special knowledge. — John Steinbeck
There is among doctors, in acute hospitals at least, a presumption of stupidity in their patients. — Oliver Sacks
It's rare - too rare, I have to say - for botanists to become doctors. — Andrew Weil

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