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Quotes About Doctor

Doc, I need to talk to my detective alone for a few minutes." Charleston smiled at the doctor as he said it, but it didn't quite reach his eyes. They showed that he was smiling for social convention and nothing else
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
My father stood and said, I will not live without my mind, then shook the doctor's hand and told me it was time to go home.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Dr. Kerr rose off the bed. "Damned fool," he growled. "Excuse me?" I said. "Rowley, the imposter. Autumnal fever indeed. Your mother has yellow fever. There's no doubt at all.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
There are three "real" people in the book. The mayor of New York, David Matthews, actually did participate in the conspiracy to assassinate Washington. Thomas Hickey was a member of Washington's Life Guards, and was hung for his part in the assassination plot. And Dr. Abraham van Buskirk, the Loyalist sympathizer who sheltered Mr. Lockwood, truly was a doctor in New Jersey.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
A good doctor, and in a special sense the psychologist, makes it quite deliberately, slightly harder for the patient to recover too easily. You do this to see if his psyche has any real bounce in it, for the secret of healing is in the patient and not the doctor.
~ Lawrence Durrell
The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician.
~ William James Mayo
When I went to the scientific doctor I realised what a lust there was in him to wreak his so-called science on me and reduce me to the level of a thing. So I said: Good-morning! and left him.
~ D. H. Lawrence
I have an obligation to use what I know to try to bring real, usable medical science to every doctor and bedside and patient.
~ Patrick Soon-Shiong
Come on, Rory! It isn't rocket science, it's just quantum physics! -The Doctor (Matt Smith)
~ Steven Moffat
The Governor was strong upon The Regulation Act: The Doctor said that Death was but A scientific fact: And twice a day the Chaplain called, And left a little tract.
~ Oscar Wilde
....All of the medicine hurts.
~ Farooq A. Shiekh
but by the time Dr. Fennel arrived in a mad rush, Kenji was no longer breathing.
~ Alan Brennert
I heard joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Life seems harsh, and cruel. Says he feels all alone in threatening world. Doctor says: Treatment is simple. The great clown - Pagliacci - is in town. Go see him. That should pick you up. Man bursts into tears. But doctor... he says I am Pagliacci. Good joke. Everybody laugh. Roll on snare drum. Curtains.
~ Alan Moore
During the years we were together we fought the strangest villains of all time...villains like the Firebug and Young Nastyman...don't say a word...and the most troublesome of the lot, the freakish dwarf genius called Doctor Gargunza...
~ Alan Moore
The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.
~ Desiderius Erasmus
They've expressed a well thought-out, reasonable desire to die." "And?" "And I think that should be respected." "Does that mean acted upon? Come on, doctor, don't make me grill you." "You mean, would I do it? Captain, let me put it this way. I've found that suffering can be mental and that it does no one any good." "Would you," he repeated, "do it?" She straightened her shoulders. "Yes.
~ Diane Carey
The doctor lifted the bottle. "Thank you," said Felix. "I never drink spirits." "You will," said the doctor.
~ Djuna Barnes
I'm telling you of French nights at the moment," the doctor went on, "and why we all go into them. The night and the day are two travels, and the French - gut-greedy and fist-tight though they often are - alone leave testimony of the two in the dawn; we tear up the one for the sake of the other; not so the French.
~ Djuna Barnes
The doc swore she came out screamin' in the key of E.
~ Dolly Parton
A lady doctor in the foreground, black horn-rims and white lab coat, suddenly cried, "You people ought to be ashamed of yourselves! Do you realize what you're doing to the reality concepts we're trying to instill in these people? How do you expect them to differentiate between illusion and reality when you do something like this ?"
~ Donald E. Westlake
My intent was to carry out my duty as a doctor, to end their suffering. Unfortunately, that entailed, in their cases, ending of the life.
~ Jack Kevorkian
The doctor who willingly accepts destroying life will have no grounds on which to object if the state should compel that doctor to destroy life.
~ Mildred Fay Jefferson
Hye Evans? That fat old fool," said Lilian. "That man couldn't diagnose a nail sticking out of your leg if you turned up with a nail sticking out of your leg, saying 'Doctor, I just accidentally hammered a nail into my leg.
~ Jenny Colgan
I wished to God the doctor had handed me a pamphlet that said, 'Hey, sorry about the autism, but here's a step-by-step list on what to do next.' But doctors don't do that. They say 'sorry' and move you along.
~ Jenny McCarthy