Anxiety Quote by Danielle Ofri

“Pessimist, are you?” “I’m a doctor. That makes me an optimist with realistic notions.”

— Charles Martin

“When the doctors came in a little while later saying they thought they knew my diagnosis, I was afraid to know.”

— Sarah Todd Hammer

“But at the most basic level, doctors need to be able to come forward with their errors and near-misses, otherwise we will never know…

— Danielle Ofri

“Doctors are great--as long as you don't need them.”

— Edward E. Rosenbaum

“A clear understanding of how much I don't know about medicine is one of my greatest strengths”

— Oscar London

“There was the anxiety that one day would not follow the next, combined with the certainty that it would.”

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“I was the only one who had ever even thought of becoming a doctor before that day. the truth is, none of us had…

— Drs. Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, and Rameck Hunt

“I have had too much experience of life to believe in the infallibility of doctors. Some of them are clever men and some of…

— Agatha Christie

“My medical advice surely seemed just as random. Particularly since I was a female and, by definition, could not know anything.”

— Kathleen A. Flynn

“Sometimes I feel the fear of uncertainty stinging clear. And I, I can’t help but ask myself how much I let the fear take…

— Wendy Higgins

“I have always been of the opinion that your successes are due not so much to your medical skill as your dogged determination. No…

— Elizabeth Peters

“Patience is the golden virtue in doctorhood.”

— Abhijit Naskar