Doctors Quotes - Page 4

• As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Data, Wish, Medical

  "Years of Minutes: The Best of Rooney from 60 Minutes". Book by Andy Rooney, 2004.

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• My bones are as hard as a rock. Every time I have a biopsy, the doctors are doing hand exercises a week, ten days out.

  Don Baylor

  Sports, Exercise, Rocks

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• When I was still in my psychiatric residency training in New York City, I was subjected to the doctor draft of that time, during the early fifties, at the time of the Korean War.

  Robert Jay Lifton

  New York, War, Cities

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• Two young doctors - one from Harvard and the other from Dartmouth - invited me to go to Mecca in my husband's stead. And that is what helped put me back on track.

  Betty Shabazz

  Husband, Two, Track

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• The general public thinks all little people are in circuses or sideshows. We have doctors, nurses, just about every field covered.

  Billy Barty

  Thinking, Nurse, People

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

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• When Medicare was created for senior citizens and America s disabled in 1965, about half of a seniors health care spending was on doctors and the other half on hospitals.

  Dennis Hastert

  Senior, America, Citizens

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• Star Wars is adolescent nonsense; Close Encounters is obscurist drivel; ‘Star Trek’ can turn your brains into puree of bat guano; and the greatest science fiction series of all time is Doctor Who! And I'll take you all on, one-by-one or all in a bunch to back it up!

  Harlan Ellison

  Stars, War, Brain

  "Doctor Who and the Talons of Weng-Chiang". Book by Terrance Dicks. Introduction, p. 7, 1977.

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• The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.

  Elizabeth Blackwell

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell (2016). “Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women: Autobiographical Sketches”, p.24, Library of Alexandria

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• I told my doctor I get very tired when I go on a diet, so he gave me pep pills. Know what happened? I ate faster.

  Joe E. Lewis

  Tired, Pills, Dieting

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• No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Pleasure

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.77, Stanford University Press

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• I think I definitely got scared by the second or third time a doctor told me I was dying.

  Daniel Johns

  Thinking, Dying, Scared

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

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• I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Motivational, Witty

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• A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Humorous, Men

  George Bernard Shaw (1988). “Collected letters: 1926-1950”, Vintage

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• I told my doctor I wonna stop aging, he gave me a gun!

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Humor, Suicidal

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• Each patient carries his own doctor inside him.

  Norman Cousins

  Food, Health, Patient

  Norman Cousins (2016). “Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regeneration”, p.27, Open Road Media

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• A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist; he is either, like the surgeon, a craftsman, or, like the physician and the psychologist, an artist. This means that in order to be a good doctor a man must also have a good character, that is to say, whatever weaknesses and foibles he may have, he must love his fellow human beings in the concrete and desire their good before his own.

  W. H. Auden

  Love, Character, Mean

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• Doctors cut, burn, and torture the sick, and then demand of them an undeserved fee for such services.

  Heraclitus

  Cutting, Sick, Demand

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• It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying.

  Bill Vaughan

  Dying, Long Life, Duty

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  My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.

  Wilma Rudolph

  Mother, Belief, Walks

  "50 stunning Olympic moments No35: Wilma Rudolph's triple gold in 1960" by Rob Bagchi, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2012.

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• I've been told by doctors and surgeons that I have the energy of ten men who have normal jobs.

  Gary Busey

  Jobs, Men, Energy

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• There's a new medical crisis. Doctors are reporting that many men are having allergic reactions to latex condoms. They say they cause severe swelling. So what's the problem?

  Dustin Hoffman

  Inspirational, Funny, Sexy

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• I love doctors and hate their medicine.

  Walt Whitman

  Hate, Medicine

  Walt Whitman, Walter Magnes Teller, Horace Traubel (1973). “Walt Whitman's Camden conversations”

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• The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Powerful, Ignorant, Reputation

  Desiderius Erasmus, Betty Radice (1990). “Praise of Folly”

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• I go the VA Hospital when I have a problem and the doctor jumps on me.

  R. Lee Ermey

  Hospitality, Problem, Hospitals

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

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• Surgeons must be very careful
  When they take the knife!
  Underneath their fine incisions
  Stirs the Culprit-Life!

  Emily Dickinson

  Life, Science, Knives

  "Surgeons must be very careful" l. 1 (ca. 1860)

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