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Quotes About Doctors

Unfortunately, the health care bill commonly referred to as ObamaCare is making it more difficult for employers to provide insurance to their employees. It limits individuals' ability to pick their own doctors and, over time, decreases the quality of care we provide in this country.
~ Jeff Duncan
I remain terrified of the capacity of the media, the capacity of spin doctors, here and abroad, particularly the United States media, to perpetuate false lies, perpetuate lies.
~ John le Carre
I am a physician. I keep a drug-shop of lies. I give relief, consolation. Can one console and relieve without lying? ... Only women and doctors know how necessary and how helpful lies are to men.
~ Anatole France
I was inspired by my life. I was inspired by the lives of many women doctors around me. So [Memoirs of a Woman Doctor ] is a mixture.
~ Nawal El Saadawi
Pamela Anderson Lee released a statement confirming that she has had her breast implants removed. Doctors say that Pamela is doing fine and that her old implants are now dating Charlie Sheen.
~ Conan O'Brien
Going to the doctors - for me that was quite brave, taking that first step. That was a bit scary, saying that I wanted to go on anti-depressants.
~ Limmy
Money has transformed every watchdog, every independent authority. Medical doctors are increasingly gulled by the lobbying of pharmaceutical salesmen.
~ Thomas Frank
How many concealed suicides were committed by deliberate drug discontinuance is not known. These deaths almost always were classed as being caused by "noncompliance." Doctors, like all other people, do not like to admit imperfections or failure. It was better to blame the patients for their own demise.
~ Thomas Starzl
The Scriptures were in the hands of the clergy only, and they had every opportunity to insert whatsoever they pleased; thus we find them full of interpolations. Johann Solomo Semler, one of the most influential theologians of the eighteenth century, speaking of this, says: "The Christian doctors never brought their sacred books before the common people; although people in general have been wont to think otherwise; during the first ages, they were in the hands of the clergy only." [463:2]
~ Thomas William Doane
What is it about doctors that makes them think they're a superior species? First they demand a special title in front of their names, and next they're treating everyone else like the subterranean Morlock race from H. G. Wells.
~ Tim Dorsey
There's a network of top doctors that normal people don't know about.
~ Jonathan Cheban
The doctors x-rayed my head and found nothing.
~ Dizzy Dean
Even putting aside the Judeo-Christian morality upon which the Constitution and our nation's culture are based, the notion of forced euthanasia would contradict the long-held body of medical ethics to which all American doctors must adhere.
~ Sherwin B. Nuland
Politicians aren't leading us. Nurses are. Doctors are. Teachers are. Activists are.
~ Cori Bush
There are definitions of morbid obesity. Doctors define it.
~ Jane Velez-Mitchell
The brains are stained with ink The doctors dispute in a den of thieves The businessmen fast hands slow thoughts officiate in the graveyard The dialecticians exalt the subtlety of the rope
~ Octavio Paz
Listen Sut. We're painted into a corner anyways. I mean what if we was to just call up and say he died? I mean hell fire, you caint fool them guys. Them guys is doctors. They take one look at him and know for a fact he's been dead six months. How does it smell in there? It smells fuckin awful.
~ Cormac McCarthy
medical indicators, monitor our health conditions on our phones, and share the data with doctors and researchers. Doudna added that the pandemic had accelerated the convergence of science with other fields. "The engagement of non-scientists in our work will help achieve an incredibly interesting biotechnology revolution," she predicted. This was molecular biology's moment.
~ Walter Isaacson
I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.
~ Charles Schumer
Just as it's important to take the changing value of a dollar into account when comparing spending over time, it's important to take doctors' changing diagnoses into account when looking at disease trends
~ Charles Seife
By the time Cheryl Hersha came to the facility, knowledge of multiple personality was so complete that doctors understood how the mind separated into distinct ego states, each unaware of the other. First, the person traumatized had to be both extremely intelligent and under the age of seven, two conditions not yet understood though remaining consistent as factors. The trauma was almost always of a sexual nature… (p52)
~ Cheryl Hersha
Got a headache, huh?" Allan nodded. "Severe." "Why don't you use what doctors recommend most?" "Oh, God …" "Electroshock therapy! It really works!
~ Chet Williamson
I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.
~ James H. Boren
America does not have a health care system; what modern medicine has created is an illness maintenance system.
~ Morris Hyman, M.D.