Doctors Quotes - Page 5

• The South produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors, lawyers and poets, but certainly not engineers or mechanics. Let the Yankees adopt such low callings.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Yankees, Soldier, Calling

  "Gone with the Wind".

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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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• Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Philosophical, Years, Giving

  'Virginibus Puerisque' (1881) 'Aes Triplex'

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• We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.

  Blaise Pascal

  Matter, Moral, Pope

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

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• America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world.

  Bill Frist

  Country, Technology, Break Through

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• I took anatomy classes. I went to medical libraries and talked to doctors and nutritionists. I did the whole thing before using myself as a human guinea pig.

  Marilu Henner

  Pigs, Class, Library

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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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• For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.

  Marcel Proust

  Powerful, Ideas, Medicine

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• The surest way to health, say what they will, Is never to suppose we shall be ill; Most of the ills which we poor mortals know From doctors and imagination flow.

  Charles Churchill

  Health, Science, Imagination

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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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• One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they are uncertain about the value of the actual lives of the patients they are treating. This is not because they are callous or personally inhuman: it is because they live in and accept a society which is incapable of knowing what a human life is worth.

  John Berger

  Life, Knowing, Cynical

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• It is a different genre - a show about something other than doctors, lawyers and cops. Teachers are something completely different. I think it makes for very interesting television

  Chi McBride

  Teacher, Thinking, Interesting

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• Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

  Alexander Pope

  Doubt, Like You, Disagree

  'Epistles to Several Persons' 'To Lord Bathurst' (1733) l. 1

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• Most of those evils we poor mortals know From doctors and imagination flow.

  Charles Churchill

  Evil, Imagination, Flow

  The Prophecy of Famine (1763)

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• The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.

  Sigmund Freud

  Mirrors, Opaque, Patient

  Sigmund Freud, E. James Lieberman, Robert Kramer, Dr Gregory C Richter (2012). “The Letters of Sigmund Freud and Otto Rank: Inside Psychoanalysis”, p.153, JHU Press

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• The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Medicine, Care

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• The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. ~

  Thomas A. Edison

  Life, Motivational, Fitness

  Aphorism

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• Among doctors in general, I think more than half support what I'm doing.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Thinking, Support, Half

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• Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Happiness, Health, Doors

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.1638, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I went to the doctor and he said I had acute appendicitis, and I said compared to who?

  Jay London

  Hands, Medical, Tranquility

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• We were led to a pediatric ophthalmologist. It's a hard date for me, April 14, 1998. The doctor came back from the examining room and told us she had tumors in both eyes.

  Hunter Tylo

  Eye, Dating, Rooms

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• So I went and visited a doctor and he diagnosed me with reactive arthritis.

  Daniel Johns

  Arthritis

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

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• Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey.

  Marcel Proust

  Pain, Health, Promise

  Marcel Proust (1948). “The Maxims of Marcel Proust”

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• A few years ago, I thought, I'll never make it. I started to go to the doctor to help me lose weight.

  Etta James

  Years, Weight, Helping

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