Fat Quote by Roxane Gay

“When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“When a doctor does go wrong, he is the first of criminals. He has the nerve and he has the knowledge.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“It seems that part of the moral constitution of a doctor is a commitment not to intend the death of a patient, and to…

— David Jeffrey

“There is no such thing as an infallible doctor.”

— Edward E. Rosenbaum

“Any doctor will do in an emergency.”

— Cao Xueqin

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

— Sarah Todd Hammer

“Work, he said, was a first-rate medicine for any illness.”

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

“before they reached the clinic. The doctor told them that though”

— Grace Fisher

“... omniscience about life and death is not within a physician's purview. A doctor should never write off a person a priori.”

— Anonymous

“In other words, our decision making in medicine has failed so spectacularly that we have reached the point of actively inflicting harm on patients…

— Atul Gawande

“Next day, after lunch, I went to see "our" doctor, a friendly fellow whose perfect bedside manner and complete reliance on a few patented…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Doctors are supposed to first do no harm, but when it comes to fat bodies, most doctors seem fundamentally incapable of heeding their oath.”

— Roxane Gay