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Quotes About Doctor

You and I doctor, on the beach.
~ William Gaddis
But nobody else understands about the fire. If someone threw you a rope when you were drowning. If a doctor said take this because if you don't take you'll die - you would, wouldn't you?
~ William Golding
Funny thing- Morgenstern's folk's were named Max and Valerie and his father was a doctor.
~ William Goldman
The superior doctor prevents sickness; The mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; The inferior doctor treats actual sickness;
~ Chinese proverb
Medicine can only cure curable disease, and then not always
~ Chinese Proverbs
Fourth Doctor: You know, the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common: they don't alter their views to fit the facts; they alter the facts to fit their views.
~ Chris Boucher
Leela: Why are we listening to them? It is a waste of time. The Doctor; It is difficult to know what will be a waste of time until after the time has been wasted, by which time it is too late. So predicting what will be a waste of time is something of a waste of time. Unless it gives you pleasure of course when it probably doesn't count as a waste of time. Leela (yawning): I am sorry I did not hear what you said, Doctor. The Doctor (smiling): That was a waste of time then.
~ Chris Boucher
Psychiatry in this place is like serving an in-flight meal in the middle of a plane crash. If I wanted to make you well, as a doctor, I should be giving you a parachute, not a cheese-and-pickle sandwich.
~ Chris Cleave
The doctor] asked if I knew what might be causing my headaches. I looked her squarely in the face and said to her directly: "Yes, I hate my mother." That was the end of the interview. That was also the end of my visits to the doctor. That was not the end of my headaches.
~ Christina Crawford
I often think it would be such a luxury to go mad, and not have to worry about anything. [...] There would be some sort of doctor there to tell me: "Don't worry, Mary, it's just that you're mad. Now be quiet and take this pill." And I would think, So that's all is is, and I would be glad. But aloud I would say, "What? I'm perfectly sane! You're mad...." Only mildly, though; just for show, really.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays.
~ Henny Youngman
To me the ideal doctor would be a man endowed with profound knowledge of life and of the soul, intuitively divining any suffering or disorder of whatever kind, and restoring peace by his mere presence.
~ Henri Amiel
But I then thought of how the value of my work as a doctor is measured solely in the value of other people's lives, and that included the people in front of me in the check-out queue.
~ Henry Marsh
Los neurocirujanos dicen a veces que operar un aneurisma se parece a la tarea de desactivar una bomba, aunque se requiere una valentía de otra clase y es la vida del paciente la que está en juego, no la del médico.
~ Henry Marsh
Një mjek i mirë duhet t'u flasë të dy qenieve kontradiktore brenda pacientit që po vdes – pjesës që e di që po vdes dhe asaj që shpreson se do të rrojë ende.
~ Henry Marsh
Pacientët përpiqen ta mposhtin frikën e tyre duke i veshur kirurgut fuqi mbinatyrore!
~ Henry Marsh
When a doktor looks me square in the face and kant see no money in me, then i am happy.
~ Henry Wheeler Shaw
The doctor arrived towards dinnertime and said, of course, that although recurring phenomena might well elicit apprehension, nonetheless there was, strictly speaking, no positive indication, yet since neither was there any contraindication, it might, on the one hand, be supposed, but on the other hand it might also be supposed. And it was therefore necessary to stay in bed, and although I don't like prescribing, nevertheless take this and stay in bed.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Then the doctor, a young man, not quite a Nihilist perhaps, but you know, eats with his knife...but a very good doctor.
~ Leo Tolstoy
The doctor declared that his physical sufferings were terrible, and he was right; but more horrible even than his physical sufferings were his moral sufferings, his greatest torment.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Soon after the doctor, Dolly had arrived. She knew that there was to be a consultation that day, and though she was only just up after her confinement (she had another baby, a little girl, born at the end of the winter), though she had trouble and anxiety enough of her own, she had left her tiny baby and a sick child, to come and hear Kitty's fate, which was to be decided that day.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Are you a journalist?" "I'm a doctor." "Good. We need doctors, Wallahi ." Sadoon scowled. "Journalists only tell lies and smuggle carpets.
~ Leslie Cockburn
How can a doctor judge a woman's sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release? Even the sick ones know it is useless to say anything, for the answer will be that it is their imagination.
~ Nellie Bly
I go the VA Hospital when I have a problem and the doctor jumps on me.
~ R. Lee Ermey