Quotes About Doctor

For lack of a better calling, I just figured my dad's a doctor. He seems to enjoy what he does, so I had my eye on playing volleyball in college, maybe a tiny bit after, but then going to medical school and becoming a doctor.

Of all the arguments against voluntary euthanasia, the most influential is the 'slippery slope': once we allow doctors to kill patients, we will not be able to limit the killing to those who want to die.

Job-wise, I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago, but I hate when people vomit.

I like medicine. Even if I was selling a million books a year, I would still be a doctor.

Before, if I wasn't in baseball, I wanted to become a doctor.

And he'd looked straight back at her, holding her professional eye contact, and said yes, thankyou doctor, I do understand, yes. And he'd coughed, hard, repeatedly, spraying blooded phlegm into his handkerchief as to prove how much he understood. Yes, thankyou doctor, I understand. Things are not exactly one hundred percent the way we would like them to be.

Occult Medicine is essentially sympathetic. Reciprocal affection, or at least real goodwill, must exist between doctor and patient. Syrups and juleps have very little inherent virtue; they are what they become through the mutual opinion of operator and subject; hence homoeopathic medicine dispenses with them and no serious inconvenience follows.

She's a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.

You're telling me that a chef must be familiar with every ingredient in a cupcake because of allergies, but a doctor is not required to be familiar with the contents in a vaccination.

Surely you couldn't be a good doctor and a terrible human being---surely the laws of man, if not God, didn't allow it.

Abraham Verghese

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No one but "Jigiby Doctor," who gave her the miraculous drops, may operate.

Thomas Christian ladies attend his clinic as faithfully as they attend church, presenting him their aches and pains that are often surrogates for chronic marital woes—he offers placebos and sympathetic homilies, such as "Mullu elayil vinallum, ela mullel vinallum, elakka nashttam." Whether the thorn falls on the leaf, or the leaf falls on the thorn, the leaf suffers. "Aah, aah, you're so right, doctor. My husband is a thorn only, what to do?

You can't make assumptions when you're dealing with health issues.

Senator (patrz?c za uciekaj?cymi) Przekl?ty Doktor! ?yj?c nudzi? mi? do md?o?ci, A jak zdech?, patrzaj, jeszcze rozp?dza mi go?ci.

When you have a diagnosis of cancer, or any serious illness, your choices are basically to be passive and kind of accept whatever is offered you, or to be active and to learn about your disease, and understand your options, and be an active partner with your doctor. That's the course I took with all three of my cancers.

The key is to cut out the middleman and empower both doctor and patient with information about what things cost.

Healthcare should be between the doctor and the patient. And if the doctor says something needs to be done, the government should guarantee it gets paid for.

I'm opposed to anybody getting between me and the patient.

Unelected bureaucrats in Washington should not have anything to do with the healthcare decisions made between a patient and their doctor.

My dad's a doctor. So when we were little, at our family Christmases, we'd always have a couple of his elderly patients over for lunch.

One fateful morning, I looked at myself in the mirror and realized that I shouldn't be operating on patients and then teaching them to eat to avoid me in the future; I should teach them to eat so that I wouldn't have to operate on them in the first place!

Communication is everything, especially as a doctor, you need to communicate with your patients.