Doctors Quotes - Page 31

• Only the doctor and the judge have the right to inflict the death penalty without receiving the same.

  Philemon

  Death, Science, Judging

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• The education of the doctor which goes on after he has his degree is, after all, the most important part of his education.

  John Shaw Billings

  Important, Degrees, Goes On

  Boston Medical and Surgical Journal 131: 140 (1894)

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• I become faint and nauseous during even very minor medical procedures, such as making an appointment by phone.

  Dave Barry

  Phones, Medicine, Medical

  Dave Barry (2010). “I'll Mature When I'm Dead: Dave Barry's Amazing Tales of Adulthood”, p.96, Penguin

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• Is there a medical rule that requires doctors-office personnel to treat you as though you have the IQ of a Cheeto?

  Dave Barry

  Medicine, Office, Medical

  Twitter post from Apr 15, 2010

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• Why do they call it proctology? Is it because analogy was already taken?

  Unknown

  Taken, Medicine, Analogies

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• The scrub sink...is the place where doctors wash their hands after they operate so that they won't get flecks of your vital organs on their Lexus upholstery.

  Dave Barry

  Hands, Medicine, Upholstery

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.54, Ballantine Books

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• Men have cried out to me in sincere and despairing appeal: 'Doctor, I cannot go on like this! I have everything to live for! I must stop, but I cannot! You must help me!'...One feels that something more than human power is needed to produce the essential psychic change. Though the aggregate of recoveries resulting from psychiatric effort is considerable, we physicians must admit we have made little impression upon the problem as a whole. Many types do not respond to the ordinary psychological approach.

  William Duncan Silkworth

  Recovery, Men, Psychics

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• The supportive care that we're able to provide in the United States is so much better, so much more sophisticated, than what's available in West Africa. ... So we can move that needle of survival way down. Even Doctors Without Borders in West Africa are moving the fatality rate from 50 percent down to 30 percent-I bet we can do substantially better than that here.

  William Schaffner

  Moving, Ebola, Survival

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• Even Doctors Without Borders in West Africa are moving the fatality rate from 50 percent down to 30 percent-I bet we can do substantially better than that here.

  William Schaffner

  Moving, Ebola, Borders

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• The best sculptor is the one who can most accurately reproduce in marble the image that he sees before him. The good cook follows the recipe. The pharmacist can utilize the many years of training of the most famous doctors from the best medical schools, if he just knows how to follow a prescription. Someone has said that science is just a collection of successful formulas.

  Sterling W Sill

  School, Successful, Years

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• Lookit, I've done it their way this far and now it's my turn. I'm my own handler. Any questions? Ask me ... There's not going to be any more handler stories because I'm the handler ... I'm Doctor Spin.

  Dan Quayle

  Stories, Done, Politics

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• No girl who is going to marry need bother to win a college degree; she just naturally becomes a "Master of Arts" and a "Doctor of Philosophy" after catering to an ordinary man for a few years.

  Helen Rowland

  Girl, Art, Philosophy

  Helen Rowland (2017). “A Guide to Men: Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”, p.22, Litres

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• It's the doctors duty to activate and reactivate the body's own healing mechanism.

  Charlotte Gerson

  Healing, Body, Duty

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• I'd rather play tennis than go to the dentist.
  I'd rather play soccer than go to the doctor.
  I'd rather play Hurk than go to work.
  Hurk? Hurk? What's Hurk?
  I don't know but it MUST be better than work!

  Shel Silverstein

  Soccer, Play, Tennis

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• Liveability means being able to take your kids to school, go to work, see a doctor, drop by the grocery or Post Office, go out to dinner and a movie, and play with your kids at the park - all without having to get in your car.

  Ray LaHood

  School, Mean, Kids

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• In these days before antiseptics, doctors themselves also suffered high mortality rates. Florence Nightingale, a nurse during the Crimean War (1853-1856), watched one particularly inept surgeon cut both himself and, somehow, a bystander while blundering about during an amputation. Both men contracted an infection and died, as did the patient. Nightingale commented that it was the only surgery she'd ever seen with 300 percent mortality.

  Sam Kean

  War, Cutting, Men

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• I said to my doctor, 'You gotta testme, there's something wrong with me that I would be behaving this way.'

  Richard Dreyfuss

  Would Be, Way, Mental Illness

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• My doctor asked me how many golf balls I had hit in my career. I'm lying there in bed calculating somewhere between four and five million golf balls I had hit to do that on my body.

  Greg Norman

  Lying, Golf, Careers

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One reason that I embarked on a study of Nazi doctors was that in this personal journey, I had the feeling increasingly that I did want to do a Holocaust study and that increasingly I wanted it to be of perpetrators, which I thought was more needed.

  Robert Jay Lifton

  Journey, Holocaust, Feelings

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• (Doctors) collectively have done more to block adequate medical care for people of this country than any other single group.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Block, Dark

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• All patients reported a loss of craving for drugs while taking large doses of Vitamin C, during detoxification. Of the first 30 carefully monitored heroin addicts, 30 successfully withdrew from their addiction with no more than minor discomfort. None of the 30 were reported to have relapsed...Similar results have been reported by other doctors...:Archie Kalokerinos.

  Irwin Stone

  Loss, Dark, Addiction

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• That's the trouble with the conventional doctors. They always say, 'How does it work?' but often there isn't any neat little answer...Something simply works...We don't really know how it works. We say we do. We know one or two things we can see and measure.

  John Bradshaw

  Dark, Two, Age

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• ...Your company...will send drugs to all the underdeveloped countries of the world, and since they do not have any standards, we will fool them all and can make a great big profit and never tell the doctors that there is a risk.....You will meet the standards of the country in which you are advertising, not the...proper standard...I would think that you would not sleep at night....I do not think this country will not stand for it.

  Gaylord Nelson

  Country, Sleep, Dark

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• We labor under the fatal delusion that no disease can be cured without medicine. This has been responsible for more mischief to mankind than any other evil. ...Disease increases in proportion to the increase to the number of doctors in a place.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Dark, Medicine, Numbers

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• I think doctors care very deeply about their patients, but when they organize into the AMA, their responsibility is to the welfare of doctors, and quite often, these lobbying groups are the only ones that are heard in the state capitols and in the capitol of our country.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Responsibility, Dark

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