Doctors Quotes - Page 35

• What clinical lectures I will give in heaven, demonstrating the ignorance of doctors!

  Israel Zangwill

  Ignorance, Giving, Heaven

  Israel Zangwill (1908). “Dreamers of the Ghetto”, p.558, Library of Alexandria

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• The medicalization of early diagnosis not only hampers and discourages preventative health-care but it also trains the patient-to-be to function in the meantime as an acolyte to his doctor. He learns to depend on the physician in sickness and in health. He turns into a life-long patient.

  Ivan Illich

  Long, Physicians, Care

  Medical Nemesis

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• The Governor was strong upon
  The Regulation Act:
  The Doctor said that Death was but
  A scientific fact:
  And twice a day the Chaplain called,
  And left a little tract.

  Oscar Wilde

  Strong, Science, Littles

  'The Ballad of Reading Gaol' (1898) pt. 3, st. 3

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• Once my doctor began treating my kidney disease, my greatest challenge was the constant exhaustion. Fortunately, my doctor explained that anemia was causing my exhaustion and that people with serious illnesses, like kidney disease, may be at increased risk for anemia.

  Alonzo Mourning

  Sports, Serious Illness, People

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• We can't socialize the doctors without socializing the patients.

  Ronald Reagan

  Politics, Patient, Handouts

  Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.5, Humanix Books

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• Keynesians are to economics what witch doctors are to medicine.

  Peter Schiff

  Medicine, Politics, Witch

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• If you are feeling tired or ill, rest. Your body will always want rest and ease if it's sick. When you become quiet, ask your body what you need to do in order to heal yourself. Your body may tell you to change certain habits, eat more wholesome food, express some feelings, quit your job, see a doctor, or it may have some other message for you, but there is always an answer available to you. The key is to ask and then listen honestly for a response.

  Shakti Gawain

  Jobs, Tired, Order

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• I absolutely reject that idea that the press is liberal and what it does is liberal. In my view, it's like accusing a doctor of malpractice or a lawyer of malfeasance.

  Ron Suskind

  Views, Ideas, Doe

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• A friend asked her doctor if a woman should have children after thirty-five. I said, "Thirty-five children is enough for any woman.

  Gracie Allen

  Children, Pregnancy, Should Have

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• If you want to get healthy, you just might not want to go to a doctor. You might instead, go to church.

  Mark Hyman, M.D.

  Healthy, Church, Want

  "How Social Networks Control Your Health" by Mark Hyman, M.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. February 14, 2012.

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• The way most doctors practice medicine right now isn't working.

  Mark Hyman, M.D.

  Practice, Medicine, Way

  "Should You Fire Your Specialist?" by Mark Hyman, M.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. April 7, 2012.

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• There's a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!

  Moliere

  Remarkable, Complaints, Decency

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• The doctors take the bodily evidence as the disease. . . . disease is itself an impudent opinion. He throws off the feelings of the sick and imparts to them his own which are perfect health, and his explanation destroys their feelings or disease. . . . He is like a captain who knows his business and feels confident in a storm, and his confidence sustains the crew and ship when both would be lost if the captain should give way to his fears.

  Phineas Quimby

  Giving, Perfect, Sick

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• Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Lying, Optimistic, Mistaken

  1910 Misalliance, preface.

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• My parents wanted me to be a doctor, and they weren't very happy at the idea of me choosing acting as a career. Everyone in my family went to university - my older brother is a lawyer - but when they saw me for the first time at the theatre, they thought, "OK". They like it very much now.

  Caterina Murino

  Brother, Careers, Ideas

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

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• A doctor recently described to me "benign positional vertigo": it means you get dizzy in certain positions, but you can get over it without necessarily changing the position. Change "vertigo" to "anxiety," and you've summed up the neurotic's plight.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Mean, Anxiety, Plight

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.89, BookBaby

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• When the pain is great enough, we will let anyone be doctor.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Pain, Philosophy, Philosophical

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.56, BookBaby

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• Medicine is intention. Those who are proficient at using intention are good doctors.

  Sun Simiao

  Inspirational, Medicine, Use

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• I told the doctor I was overtired, anxiety-ridden, compulsively active, constantly depressed, with recurring fits of paranoia. Turns out I'm normal.

  Jules Feiffer

  Anxiety, Normal, Fit

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• Everyone who gives up a serious childhood dream - of becoming an artist, a doctor, an engineer, an athlete - lives the rest of their life with a sense of loss, with nagging what ifs.

  Glenn Kurtz

  Dream, Giving Up, Athlete

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• It is hard to say whether doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery.

  Edmund Burke

  Law, Justice, Divinity

  Edmund Burke, Ian Harris (1993). “Pre-Revolutionary Writings”, p.50, Cambridge University Press

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• Towns are full of people, houses full of tenants, hotels full of guests, trains full of travelers, cafés full of customers, parks full of promenaders, consulting-rooms of famous doctors full of patients, theatres full of spectators, and beaches full of bathers. What previously was, in general, no problem, now begins to be an everyday one, namely, to find room.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Beach, People, House

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• Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?

  Garry Trudeau

  Decision, Want, Rooms

  "'You're a Good Friend to the Ladies, Dad'". Interview with Emily Bazelon, www.slate.com. March 15, 2012.

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• A book on cheap paper does not convince. It is not prized, it is like a wheezy doctor with pigtail tobacco breath, who needs a manicure.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Book, Reading, Doe

  Elbert Hubbard (1922). “Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...”

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• Every physician almost hath his favourite disease.

  Henry Fielding

  Physicians, Disease, Favourite

  Henry Fielding, Thomas Roscoe (1851). “The Works of Henry Fielding: Complete in One Volume”, p.23

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