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Quotes About Doctor

Look, I really hate it when people say this sort of things... Do you know who I am? He lean a little closer and whisperer something. ALERT it cried, head spinning from side to side . EMERGENCY! IT IS THE DOC-TOR!
~ Unknown
Nice one, Doctor.' he congratulated himself. 'Now all you can do is sit and wait. Someone must have programmed the door to shut like that. They'll have to come and inspect their trap sometime, see if they've caught anything' He stared mournfully at the skeleton. 'Anytime soon...
~ Unknown
Hai parlato con Brenda? Sì E come sta? Ancora molto scossa, come puoi immaginare. Il suo medico la tiene sotto osservazione Quanto deve odiarmi Non credo. Sopravviverà, come sopravviverai tu. La tragedia è un aspetto della vita meno raro di quanto a volte si creda.
~ Unknown
Killick,' he cried, folding and sealing it. 'That's for the post. Is the Doctor ready?' 'Ready and waiting these fourteen minutes,' said Stephen in a loud, sour voice. 'What a wretched tedious slow hand you are with a pen, upon my soul. Scratch-scratch, gasp-gasp. You might have written the Iliad in half the time, and a commentary upon it, too.
~ Patrick O'Brian
That is not the Dryad. It has three masts.' 'There is no concealing anything from the Doctor,' said Jack, and turning directly to him he went on, 'Give you joy of our prize: we took her in the night.' 'Breakfast is disgracefully late,' said Stephen.
~ Patrick O'Brian
And think of our poor doctor, all alone among them damned trees – why, there might be owls.
~ Patrick O'Brian
When I first came to Arsenal, I realised the back four were all university graduates in the art of defending. As for Tony Adams, I consider him to be a doctor of defence. He is simply outstanding.
~ Arsene Wenger
I'm not intelligent enough to be a doctor, and kind of hands down you can't argue with the worth of that. But I don't really have an opinion about the worth of making art.
~ Rupert Friend
Fear is a primal emotion in medicine. Every doctor can tell you of times when she or he was terrified; most can list more episodes than you might wish to hear. [...] It may be sublimated at times, it may wax and wane, but the fear of harming your patients never departs; it is inextricably linked to the practice of medicine.
~ Danielle Ofri
But I realized that not only did I need to keep tuning my skills as a doctor, I also had to figure out a way to live with the uncertainty of medicine and its attendant anxiety.
~ Danielle Ofri
Empathy requires being attuned to the patient's perspective and understanding how the illness is woven into this particular persons' life. Last--and this is where doctors often stumble--empathy requires being able to communicate all of this to the patient.
~ Danielle Ofri
But while the patient does bear some responsibility, I believe that the onus falls more heavily on the doctor to be attuned to the factors--cultural, ethnic, or just personal style--that influence how patients present their symptoms.
~ Danielle Ofri
An assistant could be just what the witch doctor ordered.
~ Darren Shan
The doctor gazed at her with a patience she was meant to see.
~ David Foster Wallace
How does your patient, doctor? Doctor: Not so sick, my lord, as she is troubled with thick-coming fancies that keep her from rest. Macbeth: Cure her of that! Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with some sweet oblivious antidote cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff which weighs upon her heart. Doctor: Therein the patient must minister to himself.
~ William Shakespeare
Tráigame un cirujano, tengo herido el cerebro.
~ William Shakespeare
Further, Dr. Gold said with a straight face, the pill at optimum dosage could have the side effect of impotence. Until that moment, although I'd had some trouble with his personality, I had not thought him totally lacking in perspicacity; now I was not all sure. Putting myself in Dr. Gold's shoes, I wondered if he seriously thought that this juiceless and ravaged semi-invalid with the shuffle and the ancient wheeze woke up each morning from his Halcion sleep eager for carnal fun.
~ William Styron
Until that moment, although I'd had some trouble with his personality, I had not thought him totally lacking in perspicacity; now I was not at all sure. Putting myself in Dr. Gold's shoes, I wondered if he seriously thought that this juiceless and ravaged semi-invalid with the shuffle and the ancient wheeze woke up each morning from his Halcion sleep eager for carnal fun.
~ William Styron
The doctor asked Dylan if she had been abused. Dylan said no. Mia took her "for ice cream" and returned to the doctor's office, where the seven-year-old had somehow changed her story.
~ Woody Allen
A doctor is advertised by the bodies he cures. My business is advertised by the minds I stimulate. And let me tell you that the book business is different from other trades. People don't know they want books. I can see just by looking at you that your mind is ill for lack of books but you are blissfully unaware of it!
~ Christopher Morley
The doctor simply refused to take pity. And added: when you don't know what to eat make a nice Italian spaghetti.
~ Clarice Lispector
The subject of so many films is the protection of the victim, and I think, I don't give a damn about those things. It's not the job of films to nurse people. With what's happening in the chemistry of love, I don't want to be a nurse or a doctor, I just want to be an observer." As a child, Claire Denis wished to be a nurse; she is no longer a child. Years have passed and soon we love this world, so soon we are willing to coexist with dust in our eyes.
~ Claudia Rankine
You're Dr. Siri," said the soldier. "You took a chunk of shrapnel out of my knee once." "Well then." "No invitation, no entry. Sorry." "If I ran past you, do you think you could catch me?" "Yes." "Then the operation was a success." "Yes.
~ Unknown
When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.
~ Herbert Hoover