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Quotes About Doctor

An ignorant doctor is the aide-de-camp of death.
~ Avicenna
that there is no drug as powerful as hope, that the slightest sign of pessimism in the face or words of a doctor can cost his patient his life.
~ Axel Munthe
le malade au petit papier, as Charcot used to say.
~ Axel Munthe
I've always been attracted to Pertwee's portrayal of the Doctor as dashing man-of-science, charming, sceptical, and rational.
~ Alastair Reynolds
A doctor or lawyer who has reached the top can stay there or move on to higher prestige positions. But an actor of comparable competence and success and age has little or no control over his career.
~ Van Heflin
A doctor is not a mechanic. A car doesn't react with a mechanic, but a human being does.
~ Randa Haines
You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten.
~ Earl Wilson
My mom says: 'Why aren't you a doctor?' and I'm like, 'I am a doctor!' and she's all, 'No, I mean a real doctor.' She reads my books, but she says they give her a headache.
~ Brian Greene
Relationships are hard. If as an actor you marry an engineer or a doctor, it's really hard for them because they don't understand what your life is like. We live two lives. We have a 'reel' life and a real life.
~ Ranbir Kapoor
Even though momentarily I thought about being a doctor, I was always involved in theatre and did a drama degree. I just didn't have the guts to go, 'Yes, I'm going to be an actor,' until I was probably 21.
~ Elliot Cowan
For an instant she hesitated. Baldanders said, 'You may trust him. The doctor has his own way of looking at the world, but he lies less than people believe.
~ Gene Wolfe
At all events, it is certain that if any medicinal man had come to Middlemarch with the reputation of having very definite religious views, of being given to prayer, and of otherwise showing an active piety, there would have been a general presumption against his medical skill.
~ George Eliot
I truly think comedy is - being funny is DNA. My dad was a doctor, a wonderful doctor, and people still come up to me today, 'Your father helped my mother die.' You know what I'm saying? He made her laugh 'til she died. My father was always very funny.
~ Joan Rivers
I may look like an American WASPy doctor or lawyer, but I feel just like Woody Allen. Don't cast me for my looks - I have a very ironic, existential, crazy Jew in me.
~ Spalding Gray
I wanted to be a doctor. I was pre-med at school, and I actually even took the MCAT. My ultimate decision was that I didn't love the work environment in a hospital.
~ Katrina Lake
My doctor told me I shouldn't work out until I'm in better shape. I told him, 'All right; don't send me a bill until I pay you.'
~ Steven Wright
I had a sore throat for a long time and it scared me. I saw a lump in my throat and I was terrified. I wouldn't go to a doctor.
~ Anne Ramsey
I questioned her further, and eventually got to talk to her doctor. And her doctor sort of shook his head and he said, 'I have examined her for throat cancer at least 15 times in the past few years.
~ James Randi
If not music, I think it would be pretty cool to be an ear, nose and throat doctor.
~ David Archuleta
I saw the Doctor as a kind of lama, one of those long-lived old boys out in Tibet who might be anything up to eight hundred years old but only look seventy-five.
~ William Hartnell
Un médico sin medicinas es como un pianista sin piano.
~ Sally Gardner
But the strange thing, the thing that you can never explain to anyone, except another nut, or, if you're lucky, a doctor who has an unusual amount of sense-stranger than the hallucinations, or the voices, or the anxiety-is the way you begin to experience the edges of the mind itself... in a way other people just can't.
~ Samuel R. Delany
It's an incredible paradox that being a doctor is so degrading and yet is so valued by society
~ Samuel Shem
The main source of 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