Doctors Quotes

That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.

We doctors have always been a simple trusting folk. Did we not believe Galen implicitly for 1500 years and Hippocrates for more than 2000?

Just using a checklist requires [doctors] to embrace different values from ones we've had, like humility, discipline, teamwork.

My doctor asked me how many golf balls I had hit in my career. I'm lying there in bed calculating somewhere between four and five million golf balls I had hit to do that on my body.

I had been introduced to psychotherapy, in which the doctors let you talk, talk, talk, until you find the source of your problem or find another doctor.

My dream is to be a doctor. I'm almost working in a laboratory, because I'm trying new techniques, new directions and fabrics, new weaving.

I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.

When doctors differ who decides amid the milliard-headed throng?

Its always been my tendency to lie to doctors, as if good health consisted only of the ability to fool them.

The most exquisite pleasure in the practice of medicine comes from nudging a layman in the direction of terror, then bringing him back to safety again.

A few years ago he had a big heart transplant in Chicago, a five-hour operation. It took the doctors four hours to get him on the operating table.

Its the best time ever to be a doctor because you can heal and treat conditions that were untreatable even a few years ago.

Once I had a professor say to me, "You know you have as much education as a lot of white people." I answered, "Doctor, I have more education than most white people."

The South produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors, lawyers and poets, but certainly not engineers or mechanics. Let the Yankees adopt such low callings.

When the doctor said I had diabetes, I conjured images of languishing on a chaise longue nibbling chocolates. I have no idea why I thought this.

I definitely want to thank my doctor, Dr. Sandy, um, my psychiatrist, she really helped me relax a lot, thank you so much.

I think the last thing I want to do is switch doctors.

Before you take the first dose of any medication your doctor prescribes, you should make it your business to find out more about the drug than the doctor himself knows.

I told my doctor, "I've swallowed a bottle of sleeping pills" and he told me to have a few drinks and get some rest.

We can't socialize the doctors without socializing the patients.

I become faint and nauseous during even very minor medical procedures, such as making an appointment by phone.

Some guy once told me that skydiving is like cutting your throat and seeing if you can get to the doctor before you bleed to death.

The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.

Every intelligent person, whether hes an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of seeing and describing the world.

Doctors still retain a high degree of public confidence because they are perceived as healers. Should lawyers not be healers? Healers, not warriors? Healers, not procurers? Healers, not hired guns?

The American doctor possesses a combination of conservatism and... an eagerness to know what it is really all about, in order that he may not be the one left behind if there is something to it.

My doctor is nice; every time I see him, I'm ashamed of what I think of doctors in general.

Doctor Livingstone, I presume?

You ever get sick and one of your friends gives you medical advice? And they tell you that they're not a doctor - like you didn't know it?

I suppose the doctor-patient relationship has that idea of transference. I think it's a special thing that doctors have. We all find doctors sexy. That's why there are so many TV shows about doctors.

It is nearly 50 years since I was assured by a conclave of doctors that if I did not eat meat I should die of starvation.

...if all people doing desktop publishing were doctors we would all be dead!

If Christian scientists had more science and doctors more Christianity, it wouldn't make any difference which you called in - if you had a good nurse.

When doctors and undertakers meet, they wink at each other.

According to the doctors, I'm only suffering from a light form of premature baldness.

I believe that any doctor that performs an abortion, I would advocate that any doctor that performs an abortion, should be criminally charged for doing so.

The doctors are always changing their opinions. They always have some new fad.

Two of the most frustrated trades are dentists and photographers - dentists because they want to be doctors, and photographers because they want to be painters.

Doctors bury their mistakes, but mine are still on scholarship.

I like when my man is worldly, know the finer things in life, is well traveled, and educated. It's important to me that he's able to talk to all types of people, from doctors to dishwashers.

Never return to a doctor whose office plants have died. After five days in hospital, I took a turn for the nurse.

The moment this brilliant young producer Miss Verity Lambert started telling me about Doctor Who, I was hooked. I remember telling her, This is going to run for five years. And look what's happened!

It is hard to say whether doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery.

Ninety isn't old. You're old when your doctor doesn't X-ray you any more - he just holds you up to the light!

Even Doctors Without Borders in West Africa are moving the fatality rate from 50 percent down to 30 percent-I bet we can do substantially better than that here.

Married or Single? There is no good choice. It's like when your doctor says, 'Ointment?' or 'Suppositories'?

Doctors have told me I have a high pain threshold, but I can only know what I feel. I think I'm good at minimising the pain and being indifferent to it.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

Doctors cut, burn, and torture the sick, and then demand of them an undeserved fee for such services.

So I went and visited a doctor and he diagnosed me with reactive arthritis.