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Quotes About Doctor

As any doctor can tell you, the most crucial step toward healing is having the right diagnosis. If the disease is precisely identified, a good resolution is far more likely. Conversely, a bad diagnosis usually means a bad outcome, no matter how skilled the physician.
~ Andrew Weil
Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife.
~ Roald Dahl
People used to trust their doctor. They went to an expert. Now people have new ideas and are thinking for themselves. That's a very important change in our collective psychology.
~ James Hillman
Bones stared at the cheap melamine plate with an omelet, fruit bowl, and dry toast. "Is something wrong?" Dr. Chu asked. I have the stomach flu, sore throat, tooth abscess, migraine, allergy to gluten . . . . I never eat breakfast on Wednesdays or in closed rooms or during a lunar eclipse, especially in July or when I'm out of deodorant. . . "I'm just not hungry.
~ Sherry Shahan
On the trees are only a few gnarled apples that the pickers have rejected. They look like the knuckles of Doctor Reefy's hands. One nibbles at them and they are delicious. Into a little round place at the side of the apple has been gathered all its sweetness. One runs from tree to tree over the frosted ground picking the gnarled, twisted apples and filling his pockets with them. Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples.
~ Sherwood Anderson
The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl.
~ Shirley Chisholm
Poison! Poison gasses, you idiot! Defend yourself! Eat the celery! I thrust a numbing hand into an inside coat pocket, pulled out the piece of celery, and chewed on it. I always keep a piece handy, pre-prepared with all kinds of useful substances, for just such occasions as this. It tasted bitter as I chewed, but it cleared my head rapidly. It's an old trick but a good one, taught me long ago by a Travelling Doctor I met at the Hawk's Wind Bar & Grill.
~ Simon R. Green
Have you got any bow-ties?" I asked Caradoc. "Bow-ties are cool. The Travelling Doctor said so.
~ Simon R. Green
Bow ties are cool," I said. "The Travelling Doctor said so.
~ Simon R. Green
Don't they give you happy pills in this place?
~ Simone Elkeles
The doctor who treats himself has a fool for a patient.
~ Sir William Osler
It is astonishing with how little reading a doctor can practice medicine, but is not astonishing how badly he may do it.
~ Sir William Osler
Worries about the power of a doctor's suggestions to influence and shape his patient's mind, whether they are made under hypnosis or not, are still with us.
~ Siri Hustvedt
The doctor that acts out of love doesn't burn out. He or she may get tired physically, but not emotionally.
~ Bernie Siegel
I am a geek in terms of, I love 'Close Encounters' and I love 'Star Wars,' but other things... 'Doctor Who,' I don't really care about at all, I couldn't give a fig about it.
~ Nick Frost
the doctor saw that the fire was still raging in the hollow breast of the cattleman, but there was no longer fuel to feed it.
~ Max Brand
After all, why would a doctor worry about the confidentiality of her patient if she didn't believe that patient was still alive?
~ Max Brooks
What's up, Doc?
~ Max Brooks
Miss Glory went on to say that the doctor had taken all her lady organs. I reasoned that a pig organ's included the lungs, heart, and liver, so if Mrs. Cullinan was walking around without those essentials, it explained why she drank alcohol out of unmarked bottles. She was keeping herself embalmed.
~ Maya Angelou
But Keyes had told her what he thought of PhDs who demanded to be addressed as Doctor: they were hopeless narcissists
~ Meg Gardiner
And so it is a truth universally acknowledged that a young woman in possession of vague symptoms like fatigue and pain will be in search of a doctor who believes she is actually sick .
~ Meghan O'Rourke
Why do you still care about those people, Frieda?' he asked. 'Do they care about you?' 'Wolf, I'm a doctor. I do not require my commitment to be reciprocal.
~ Ben Elton
Hood an ass with reverend purple, ... And he shall pass for a cathedral doctor (1. 2. 113-115)
~ Ben Jonson
A doctor can save maybe a few hundred lives in a lifetime. A researcher can save the whole world.
~ Craig Venter