Coats Quote by Robert Jay Lifton

My best friends when I was young were always doctors. I used to dress up in a white gauze helmet and go round and…

— Sylvia Plath

My desire to be a physician had a lot to do with that sense of medicine as a ministry of healing, not just a…

— Abraham Verghese

As my mentor in Medical School, Dr William Strong taught me: Never wear a white coat; it separates you from a fellow human being.…

— Steven Gundry

The ideal doctor would be a man endowed with profound knowledge of life and of the soul, intuitively divining any suffering or disorder of…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

“Psychologically, nothing is darker or more menacing, or harder to accept, than the participation of physicians in mass murder. However technicized or commercial the…

— Robert Jay Lifton

“A good doctor, and in a special sense the psychologist, makes it quite deliberately, slightly harder for the patient to recover too easily. You…

— Lawrence Durrell

I don't think I would have made for a good doctor. It was not meant to be, and it took me a long time…

— Neri Oxman

I came upon a doctor who appeared in quite poor health. I said, 'There's nothing that I can do for you that you can't…

— Conor Oberst

A touching and compassionate yet completely professional account of the psychological--indeed spiritual--dimensions of the doctorDpatient relationship that make the difference between fixing and healing.

— Melvin Konner

Therapy is not a 'white thing.' It's a clinical thing.

— Rosie Perez

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.

— Paracelsus

I think of myself as a healing artist.

— Lynn Nottage