Doctors Quotes
1718 Doctors quotes by 1239 unique authors
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For the record, I believe that women and their doctors should have access to oral contraception when desired by the patient and medically appropriate.
— Ami Bera
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Compassionate doctors sometimes lie to patients about the severity of their condition, and it is not always wrong to do so.
— Richard Dawkins
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Errors in decision-making lead young people to under-save for retirement, doctors to miss tumours, CEOs to make catastrophic investments, governments to engage in needless wars,…
— Noreena Hertz
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You want to challenge experts, because experts get a lot wrong. Doctors misdiagnose one time in five. In the U.S. and Canada, 50,000 people die…
— Noreena Hertz
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Chemotherapy can be a long, tough haul - for me, it went on for six months - and the best doctors and nurses become, if…
— Julia Glass
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Allopathic doctors used to laugh condescendingly at those who posited that psychological, emotional and spiritual factors were important contributors to the sickness as well as…
— Marianne Williamson
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The real problem with Obamacare has little to do with the number of people signing up, and a lot to do with the restrictions on…
— Ben Shapiro
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There are definitions of morbid obesity. Doctors define it.
— Jane Velez-Mitchell
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Many different relationships among patients, doctors, and drugs are possible and desirable. As in so many other areas of life, the Internet encourages experimentation. Questionnaire-based…
— Virginia Postrel
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Medicare is immune from the competitive pressures that force private insurers to pay attention to what patients and doctors want.
— Virginia Postrel
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The growing professional disciplines of medical ethics and bioethics have had a profound impact on researchers, bedside doctors, associations of physicians, and government.
— Sherwin B. Nuland
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Though moral axioms to guide the conduct of the practitioner have existed since the beginnings of the profession of healing, Western doctors are most likely…
— Sherwin B. Nuland
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I was very lucky because hanging out at a golf course was much better than being on the streets. Golf taught me a great deal.…
— Angel Cabrera
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Residents of my district continue to stress to me that they want health care decisions to be made by patients and doctors, not by the…
— Tim Walberg
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If doctors just spent more time with their patients so they felt more reassured, that might help.
— Irving Kirsch
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Patients who trust their doctors and have a psychological expectation of getting better could trigger a reaction in their body.
— Irving Kirsch
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Do we really want Washington administrators coming between us and our doctors?
— Foster Friess
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I remain terrified of the capacity of the media, the capacity of spin doctors, here and abroad, particularly the United States media, to perpetuate false…
— John le Carre
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All I say about severely disabled babies is that when a life is so miserable it is not worth living, then it is permissible to…
— Peter Singer
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Taxes, well laid and well spent, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, and promote the general welfare. Taxes protect property and the environment;…
— Jill Lepore
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As many citizens can attest, the U.S. is a great place to get sick, but a terrible place to stay well. This requires a shift…
— Rob Wittman
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When we are trying to come up with new health laws, you bring doctors, you bring experts in medicine. In urban planning, you bring the…
— Jose Andres Puerta
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My family are doctors and pilots and people involved in indigenous First Nation land rights; not overtly artistic.
— Deborah Kara Unger
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Right now, doctors can test for about 2,500 medical conditions, but they only can treat about 500 of those. So what do you do with…
— Nancy Gibbs
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Drug company payments to doctors are a small part of a much larger strategy by Big Pharma to clean our pockets.
— Robert Reich
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