Doctors Quotes - Page 36

• 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.

  Robert Jarvik

  Heart, Thinking, Long

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• Lipitor is one of the most researched medicines. I'm glad I take Lipitor, as a doctor, and a dad.

  Robert Jarvik

  Dad, Medicine, Glad

  "Jarvik Responds to Lipitor Ad Controversy" by Ryan Owens, Joel Parks, Steve Petyerak, Imaeyen Ibanga, abcnews.go.com. January 16, 2008.

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• As a medical doctor who chose a career in artificial heart technology rather than clinical practice, I decided not to take an internship, which is required for licensing. Instead, I work with invention, manufacturing, regulatory affairs, and clinical application of artificial hearts.

  Robert Jarvik

  Heart, Technology, Practice

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• Isn't it a shame military doctors couldn't be as good as military sunglasses?

  Pat Conroy

  Military, Sunglasses, Shame

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Great Santini: A Novel”, p.34, Open Road Media

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• What do I want in a doctor? Perhaps more than anything else-a friend with special knowledge.

  John Steinbeck

  Special, Want

  John Steinbeck (1989). “Steinbeck: A Life in Letters”, p.709, Penguin

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• It's rare - too rare, I have to say - for botanists to become doctors.

  Andrew Weil

  "Why Plants Are (Usually) Better Than Drugs" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 19, 2010.

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• A really conscientious doctor ought to die with his patient. The captain goes down with his ship.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Captains, Ships, Patient

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• There is among doctors, in acute hospitals at least, a presumption of stupidity in their patients.

  Oliver Sacks

  Stupidity, Patient, Presumption

  Oliver Sacks (2011). “A Leg to Stand On”, p.96, Pan Macmillan

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• My doctor told me I should get out of breath three times a week, so I took up smoking.

  Jo Brand

  Exercise, Smoking, Three

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• A vague uneasiness: the police. It's like when you suddenly understand you have to undress in front of the doctor.

  Ugo Betti

  Police, Vague, Fronts

  Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”

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• It is believed by experienced doctors that the heat which oozes out of the hand, on being applied to the sick, is highly salutary. It has often appeared, while I have been soothing my patients, as if there was a singular property in my hands to pull and draw away from the affected parts aches and diverse impurities, by laying my hand upon the place, and extending my fingers toward it. Thus it is known to some of the learned that health may be implanted in the sick by certain gestures, and by contact, as some diseases may be communicated from one to another.

  Hippocrates

  Healing, Hands, Sick

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• What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.

  Hippocrates

  Funny, Humorous, Fire

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• It is part of politics to make things look better than they really are. What is a spin doctor but a serial euphemiser?

  Nigel Rees

  Looks, Spin Doctors, Serials

  "The art of political euphemisms", news.bbc.co.uk. August 5, 2008.

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• I hear from patients who say their doctor said, 'If you want to take Vitamin C, go ahead and do it. It won't harm you, and it may do you some good.' More and more physicians are getting convinced about the value of large doses of Vitamin C.

  Linus Pauling

  Vitamins, Physicians, May

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• If I hadn't become a photographer, I would have loved to become a doctor. I would have loved to have done something that actually helped people and changed their lives.

  Mary Ellen Mark

  People, Done, Photographer

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• I think that the difference between The Sopranos and the shows that came before it was that it was really personal. There had been a lot of dramas, a lot of really good ones, a lot of really bad ones, but they were always franchise shows about cops, or doctors, or lawyers. They weren't about the writer himself.

  David Chase

  Drama, Thinking, Differences

  "Q&A: David Chase Beyond The Sopranos". Interview with Simon Abrams, www.esquire.com. October 9, 2012.

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• You don't have a family doctor anymore like you did when you were a kid, who treated you throughout your life.

  Mehmet Oz

  Family, Kids, Like You

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• I think I'm a better doctor than I am a husband. I give myself a good grade as a doctor, then the next best grade as a father, and the worst grade as a husband.

  Mehmet Oz

  Husband, Father, Thinking

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• For a long time, I thought I would like to be a doctor. Such a good profession. So explicitly good. Never a waste of time.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Long, Waste, Wasting Time

  “Jonathan Safran Foer” by Jennifer L. Knox, www.newyorker.com. June 14 & 21, 2010.

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• I went to the doctor last week. I said: 'Can I have some sleeping pills for the wife?' He said: 'Why?' I said: 'She's woke up.

  Les Dawson

  Sleep, Wife, Pills

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• COUGHS. These are symptoms, not diseases. Take them to your doctor and he can give you something serious to worry about.

  Robert Morley

  Giving, Worry, Disease

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• It is almost impossible to be a doctor and an honest man, but it is obscenely impossible to be a psychiatrist without at the same time bearing the stamp of the most incontestable madness: that of being unable to resist that old atavistic reflex of the mass of humanity, which makes any man of science who is absorbed by this mass a kind of natural and inborn enemy of all genius.

  Antonin Artaud

  Men, Humanity, Enemy

  "Van Gogh, the Man Suicided by Society". Essay by Antonin Artaud, 1947.

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• Like most men, my father is interested in action. And this is why he disappoints my mother when she tells him she doesn't feel well and he offers to take her to the doctor. He is focused on what he can do, whereas she wants sympathy.

  Deborah Tannen

  Mother, Father, Men

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• If economists were doctors, they would today be mired in malpractice suits.

  John Ralston Saul

  Money, Today, Suits

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Unconscious Civilization”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• I wanted to be a doctor when I was young. I also wanted to be a paramedic, but I always wanted to be an actor as well. I didn't have kids or something that I needed to provide for.

  Christopher Parker

  Kids, Actors, Young

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