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Quotes About Doctors

I hate doctors! They'll do anything... to keep you coming to them. They'll sell their souls. What's worse, they'll sell yours, and you never know it till one day you find yourself in hell.
~ Eugene O'Neill
We can trust our doctors to be professional, to minister equally to their patients without regard to their political or religious beliefs. But we can no longer trust our professors to do the same.
~ David Horowitz
What patients seek is not scientific knowledge that doctors hide, but existential authenticity each person must find on her own... the angst of facing mortality has no remedy in probability.
~ Paul Kalanithi
My mental health was getting really bad in the military and so the doctors decided not to renew my contract and advised me to take a break.
~ Bella Poarch
I think we have to repair our broken health care system.
~ Dan Donovan
Without truth, trust is lost. The ACA could not have been passed were it not for the repeated assertions, which proved to be false, that Americans who liked their health plans and their doctors could keep them.
~ Linda McMahon
The doctors who have examined me say I am healthy enough for a long life, so don't have any illusions that I'll soon leave this world.
~ Tomas Borge
A lot of the younger Indian generation are either IT geniuses or doctors - the number of doctors I've seen in L.A. who are Indian is just crazy. So it is a very common thing. Or an accountant! That again is a very, very big thing.
~ Freida Pinto
The birth control pill, to a great degree, made possible the (hetero)sexual revolution. Yet those who developed oral contraceptives did not intend their work to promote what the majority of Americans at the time called "promiscuity." Doctors generally refused to prescribe the pill to women who were not married; the Supreme Court did not rule this practice unconstitutional until 1972.
~ BETH BAILEY
America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world.
~ Bill Frist
America enjoys the best health care in the world, but the best is no good if folks can't afford it, access it and doctor's can't provide it.
~ Bill Frist
In the year 1240, however, a radical change in policy took effect. Frederick II, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, decreed that, for the sake of public health and the training of better doctors, at least one human body would be dissected in his kingdom every five years. For this bold move, Frederick II is credited with single-handedly pulling the field of anatomy out of the dark ages.
~ Bill Hayes
The definition of black irony is Pro-lifers killing Doctors who do abortions
~ Bill Hicks
I know from my constituency what is going on. Doctors that are told, begged, by mothers, 'Please don't write down that my child as asthma. Please lie and say it's bronchitis, because if you write down asthma, when my child turns 18 or 20 and has to get his or her own insurance, it will be a pre-existing condition.'
~ Barbara Boxer
I can see the gravity of this pandemic as my parents are doctors. This is not only a health crisis and we need to be on humanitarian grounds. It gives me immense satisfaction to help people who are in need and it is a very basic thing that I can do in these tough times.
~ Pranitha Subhash
Two young doctors - one from Harvard and the other from Dartmouth - invited me to go to Mecca in my husband's stead. And that is what helped put me back on track.
~ Betty Shabazz
The Indian diaspora is not a capital-accumulating diaspora. The Indian diaspora is doctors, lawyers, professors. Or newspaper sellers. They are basically trade- or profession-oriented, and so they're not major investors in their home country.
~ Jairam Ramesh
I do not trust doctors. They are like golfers. Every one has a different answer to your problems.
~ Seve Ballesteros
The only certainty, whether spoken or not, is that the doctors, nurses, and technicians are fighting not only death but their own uncertainties as well. In most resuscitations, those can be narrowed down to two main questions: Are we doing the right things? and, Should we be doing anything at all?
~ Sherwin B. Nuland
And lawyers are just like doctors. Whatever one says, the other says just the opposite. But they all take money and give advice. Each of them, different advice.
~ Sholem Aleichem
I just want you to listen to what I have to say, for not every doctor likes to listen to his patients.
~ Sholem Aleichem
Garrett had been bed-bound for the last week with a cough.The doctor had prescribed rest and leeches. Garrett had consented to the first treatment but insisted that his bankers provided more than enough of the second.
~ Simon Scarrow
The tsar was so sacred that no one was allowed to look him in the eye, and he was greeted by his subjects with total prostration. If he was bled by doctors, the blood was blessed and buried in a special blood pit to prevent sorcery.
~ Simon Sebag Montefiore
It's kind of amazing how popular 'Grey's Anatomy' is. What other show can boast such an annoyingly sincere cast of doctors, sniveling through such perfunctory love triangles?
~ Rob Sheffield