Quotes About Doctor

There had always been a conflict in me between mystery and meaning. I had pursued tha latter, worshipped the latter as a doctor. As a socialist and rationalist. But then I saw that the attempt to scientize reality, to name it and categorize it and vivisect it out of existence, was like trying to remove the air from the atmosphere. In the creating of the vacuum it was the experimenter who died, because he was inside the vacuum.

Four months ago, he had a mild heart attack and his doctor told him to retire. He found another doctor.

Burr holes are made in the skull, and a power saw is used to fashion a bone flap more or less like the top of a cookie jar (fig. 2). The dura mater—a membrane

A novelist is a doctor who sees only terminal cases.

It seemed to Dr. Daruwalla that his story was the opposite of universal; his story was simply strange - the doctor himself was singularly foreign.

He'd complained to his doctor. "The beta-blockers are blocking my memories!" Juan Diego cried. "They are stealing my childhood—they are robbing my dreams!" To his doctor, all this hysteria meant was that Juan Diego missed the kick his adrenaline gave him. (Beta-blockers really do a number on your adrenaline.)

You remember how I used to tell you that I was Doctor Larch's helper? Homer asked Angel. Right, said Angel Wells. Well, I got very good--at helping him, Homer said. Very good. I'm not an amateur

for a novelist, in Candy's opinion, was also a kind of impostor doctor, but a good doctor nonetheless.

Such a warm washcloth kind of sympathy was leaking from Dr. Gingrich that Larch felt wet—

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, 'It's a girl.'

One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

Check-ups are, in my experience, a grave mistake; all they do is allow the quack of your choice to tell you that you have some sort of complaint that you were far happier not knowing about.

Experience is an excellent doctor, though he never had a diploma.

I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician. I think it's very upfront. I am a doctor. I have long experience with heart disease.

Doubt is an old disease. Faith is an old medicine. Compassion is an old doctor. Concern is an old nurse.

When we take Iggy to the doctor together now, the nurse always says how happy it makes her to see a father helping out with a baby. 'I'm certainly doing their team a lot of favors', you mutter.

You know, said Sergeant Benton, I'll never understand the Doctor. He's always so sorry in the end for the horrible creatures we come across. It isn't human. You're forgetting, said the Brigadier, he isn't.

Vaya por Dios! Se avecina una buena tormenta. Fina volvió a la sala. Esta vez fue derecha a la llave de la luz y encendió las lámparas sin preocuparse de la reacción de su marido. Pero el doctor Freire no hizo ningún comentario. Dijo: «¿Has oído, Fina? Los ratones andan por el desván». De inmediato, tradujo literalmente la frase al inglés. El doctor Kimball hizo un gesto de entender el significado. Los ratones. Los truenos. Rieron.

Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.

Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect. They need at least a doctor who understands the disease. How can you expect Cottard to be able to treat you? He has made allowances for the difficulty of digesting sauces, for gastric trouble, but he has made no allowance for the effect of reading Shakespeare.

Achille Adrien Proust, was a famous doctor and epidemiologist, responsible for studying and attempting to remedy the causes and movements of cholera through Europe and Asia

now Andrée told me that if she had taken up athletic pastimes, it was under orders from her doctor, to cure her neurasthenia, her digestive troubles, but that her happiest hours were those which she spent in translating one of George Eliot's novels

This was because intense physical suffering had enforced a regime on him. Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed: to kindness, to knowledge we make promises only; pain we obey.