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Quotes About Doctor

My girl was mad and I loved her. Upon a night, she read my poetry; and kissing me madly she cried, 'You are a genius, my love!' To which I replied, 'My girl,' whispering, 'Every doctor in this land with a prescription pad is more of a genius than I.
~ Roman Payne
For the amount of money that the country is going to spend this year on health care, you can go out and hire a doctor for every seven families in the US and pay the doctor almost $230 000 a year to cover them.
~ Ron Wyden
My doctor gave me two weeks to live. I hope they're in August.
~ Ronnie Shakes
There's something wrong about trying to heal with a surgeon's knife.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
But in the end it comes down to a matter of respect, and the simplest way that respect is communicated is through tone of voice, and the most corsive tone of voice that a doctor can assume is a dominant tone. 
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Next time you meet a doctor, and you sit down in his office and he starts to talk, if you have the sense that he isn't listening to you, that he's talking down to you, and that he isn't treating you with respect, listen to that feeling. You have thin-sliced him and found him wanting.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Teaching is the highest art; before the doctor, there was a teacher.
~ Steve Perry
All those years on the psychiatrist's couch and suddenly the couch is moving. Good God, she is on that couch when the big one hits. Maidy didn't tell you, but you know what her doctor said? She sprang from the couch and said, My God, was that an earthquake? The doctor said this: Did it feel like an earthquake to you?
~ Amy Hempel
Perhaps, said the Doctor pensively. It may also be that you Americans are work-cultists, and work is the structure that holds you up, not the joy of pure living.
~ Anais Nin
Además, ejercía una profesión noble. Es verdad, cobra dinero por ello. Me gustaría saber si un hombre puede ser buen médico y buscar al mismo tiempo su propio provecho. Quizá sea posible.
~ Andrei Tarkovsky
The next day, Less hears Dr. Balk is down with a mysterious illness. In class, two young women quietly faint at their desks; as they collapse, their twin ponytails fly up like the tails of frightened deer. Less is beginning to see a pattern.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
Etna know to be true, since Dr. Little seldom speaks during her time with him. He will neither confirm nor deny her insights, a practice that invariably makes her more anxious when she leaves his office than when
~ Anita Shreve
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~ Sam Harris
I'm telling you that the cure is the disease. The main source of the illness in this world is the doctor's own illness; his compulsion to try to cure and his fraudulent belief that he can.
~ Samuel Shem
Debe haber un error, doctor. Mi cuñado no era tan gordo ni tan viejo, y la última vez que lo vimos era negro.
~ Santiago Gamboa
I spend most of my days up to my elbows in someone's chest cavity. Really, I know zip about music. He didn't bother hiding his surprise. "Wow. That must be...messy." "That didn't sound too great, did it? Let me reassure you—I'm a doctor, not a serial killer.
~ Sarah Mayberry
cough, cough, cough!
~ Sarah Mlynowski
I felt singularly ashamed of not being a doctor.
~ Saul Bellow
I was a doctor, remember? -For plants. I was a nurse. For people.
~ Scott Snyder
Our heavenly doctor, having purposed to restore all of us to health, treats some more leniently. Meanwhile, He applies stronger remedies to others. But none of us is left untouched by or remains immune to His medicine – He knows we are all diseased.
~ John Calvin
From the individual doctor's perspective, it is far better to do whatever it takes to avoid litigation, even if it doesn't seem to be the right thing to do, than to risk entanglement in this crazy system.
~ John D. Lantos
There's another advantage to being poor - a doctor will cure you faster.
~ Kin Hubbard
My doctor told me my jogging could add years to my life.
~ Lee Trevino
When I get sick, I go to my doctor like everyone else. A doctor has powerful tools that may help me. Or those tools may hurt me, make me worse. I have to decide. It's my life. It's my responsibility.
~ Michael Crichton