Doctors Quotes - Page 37

• The doctor who willingly accepts destroying life will have no grounds on which to object if the state should compel that doctor to destroy life.

  Mildred Fay Jefferson

  Accepting, States, Destroying

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• My father's mother, my Grandmother Young, was said by the family to have talked herself to death. Convalescing from a fever, she had defied the doctors and gone right on talking.

  Stark Young

  Mother, Father, Talking

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• Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously, as an imperative to do everything for the patient regardless of the cost or effects on others

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Cost, Patient, Oath

  Journal of the American Medical Association, nypost.com. June 18, 2008.

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• I want doctors to treat toward health and not treat toward disease.

  David Agus

  Disease, Want, Treats

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• Cancer begins and ends with people. In the midst of scientific abstraction, it is sometimes possible to forget this one basic fact. Doctors treat diseases but they also treat people, and this precondition of their professional existence sometimes pulls them in two directions at once.

  June Goodfield

  Cancer, Two, People

  June Goodfield (1975). “The Siege of Cancer”

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• I'm a medical doctor and a biomedical scientist.

  Steven Hatfill

  Medical, Scientist, Biomedical

  "Text of Hatfill's Statement". www.foxnews.com. August 11, 2002.

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• I was uncomfortable because I had never been that nude before. I had never shown my legs, and never shown quite that much skin. I always played frigid doctors or the plain sisters who got the guy at the end. What did I know from ladies in caves who ate only meat? And when the outfit came in, I never thought of myself that way. I mean, I always thought of myself as having my father's chest. I was very self-conscious.

  Mariette Hartley

  Father, Mean, Self

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• What it comes down to is this: the grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the liquor dealer, the policeman, the doctor, the city father and the politician -- these are the people who make money out of prostitution, these are the real reapers of the wages of sin.

  Polly Adler

  Father, Real, Cities

  Polly Adler (1953). “A House is Not a Home”, p.9, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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• A doctor who doesn't say too many foolish things is a patient half-cured.

  Marcel Proust

  Science, Fool, Half

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.1111, Wordsworth Editions

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• Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how should it fail to deceive the patient

  Marcel Proust

  Lying, Neurosis, Deceit

  Le Cote de Guermantes Pt 1

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• Drug use, within entire teams continues unabated. It is planned and deliberate cheating, with complex methods, sophisticated substances and techniques, and the active complicity of doctors, scientists, team officials and riders. There is nothing accidental about it.

  Dick Pound

  Cheating, Team, Drug Use

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• I may be permitted, like the doctors, to cure a greater evil by a less, for I shall not fall seriously in love with the young widow, I think, nor she with me - that's certain - but if I find a little pleasure in her society I may surely be allowed to seek it; and if the star of her divinity be bright enough to dim the lustre of Eliza's, so much the better, but I scarcely can think it

  Anne Bronte

  Stars, Fall, Thinking

  Anne Bronte (2006). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall”, p.56, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You can go to the doctor a million times if you're feeling down, and get nowhere, but if you go for a run it makes you feel really good.

  Gail Porter

  Running, Feeling Down, Feelings

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• Smartphones can relay patients' data to hospital computers in a continuous stream. Doctors can alter treatment regimens remotely, instead of making patients come in for a visit.

  Charles C. Mann

  Smartphones, Data, Patient

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• Tim Tebow's like the snake doctor for Florida. Gotta stop the snake doctor, keep the Gators from moving the ball....this time he snaked Alabama with a play action pass.

  Gary Danielson

  Moving, Florida, Play

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• Look at your life as a patient and a doctor!

  Tae Yun Kim

  Looks, Patient

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• I asked my doctor how many more years I have left and he said, 'You're too ornery to die.

  Jimmy Piersall

  Years, Ornery, Said

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• Much has been said about the meanings we make of illness, but what about the meanings we make out of cure? Cure is complex, disorienting, a revisioning of the self, either subtle or stark. Cure is the new, strange planet, pressing in. The doctor could not have known. And that made me, as it does every patient, only more alone.

  Lauren Slater

  Self, Doe, Strange

  Lauren Slater (2011). “Prozac Diary”, p.13, Random House

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• Being from a very traditional Chinese-American family, my parents believed the only options to have a successful life were to be a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer or a business person.

  Phillip Lim

  Successful, Parent, Chinese

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• I recently had to wait two and a half hours in a doctor's office, just waiting to be seen. I literally was genuinely thinking 'Well, maybe this is a time loop.'

  Jane Espenson

  Thinking, Two, Office

  "Loopy". BBC Interview, bbc.adactio.com. 2002.

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• A doctor may know more than a peasant, but a peasant and a doctor know more together.

  Dan Buettner

  Together, May, Peasants

  Dan Buettner (2010). “Thrive: Finding Happiness the Blue Zones Way”, p.36, National Geographic Books

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• I want to get just as many people ready for Heaven as I can. Hell is a place where there is 'weeping and gnashing of teeth'; Heaven is a place of joy, happiness and no tears . . . Being a soul winner is greater than being a preacher or a great doctor or a great dentist or a great businessman. Let's get people ready for Heaven.

  Lee Roberson

  People, Joy, Heaven

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• The American doctor possesses a combination of conservatism and... an eagerness to know what it is really all about, in order that he may not be the one left behind if there is something to it.

  Elizabeth Kenny

  Order, May, Combination

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• Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.

  Fran Drescher

  Odds, Favour, Reports

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• I am interested in getting people to use the healthcare system at the right time, getting them to see the doctor early enough, before a small health problem turns serious.

  Donna Shalala

  People, Use, Serious

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