D Quotes
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“Doctor: You need to stop self diagnosing yourself. Patient (quietly to self): I did that with the previous doctors and their failures are how I ended up here in a sickened state!”
“Doctor, do you think it could have been the sausage?”
“Doctor, feel my purse.”
“Doctor, I can't pronounce my F's, T's and H's.” “Well you can't say fairer than that then”
“Doctor, I had never had anybody like her in my life, she was the fulfillment of my most lascivious adolescent dreams– but marry her, can she be serious? You see, for all her preening and perfumes, she has a very low opinion of herself, and simultaneously– and here is the source of much of our trouble-a ridiculously high opinion of me. And simultaneously, a very low opinion of me! She is one confused Monkey, and, I'm afraid, not too very bright.”
Source: Portnoy's complaint
“Doctor, I have more education than most white people.”
Source: Joycelyn Elders, M.D.: From Sharecropper's Daughter to Surgeon General of the United States of America
“Doctor, I'm taking your sister under my protection. If any thing happens to her, anything at all, I swear to you I will get very choked up. Honestly, there could be tears.”
“Doctor, if I put this here guitar down now I ain't never going to wake up.”
“Doctor, you don't know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don't; you couldn't with eyebrows like yours.”
Source: Dracula Scholar's Annotated Edition.
“DOCTOR. Always preceded by 'The good'. Among men, in familiar conversation, 'Oh! balls, doctor!' Is a wizard when he enjoys your confidence, a jack-ass when you're no longer on terms. All are materialists: 'you can't probe for faith with a scalpel.'”
Source: Dictionary of Accepted Ideas
“Doctor." Gideon set one ankle on the opposite knee and settled back, creating a picture of unyielding decisiveness. "The only way I'm keeping my hands off her is if I'm dead. Find another way to fix us." Chapter 3 pg 50”
Source: The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day
“Doctoral training is devoted almost entirely to learning to do research, even though most Ph.Ds who enter academic life spend far more time teaching than they do conducting experiments or writing books.”
“Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders?”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy (Illustrated)
“Doctors always think anybody doing something they aren't is a quack; also they think all patients are idiots.”
“Doctors and lawyers must go to school for years and years, often with little sleep and with great sacrifice to their first wives.”
“Doctors and nurses are among the most irradiated professions.”
“Doctors and nurses are brave souls during a pandemic.”
“Doctors and nurses do crazy hours and keep an ideal afloat through the love and care that they have for their craft and their patients and the institution of the NHS. We should be very proud of it.”
“Doctors and nurses offer unconditional care, they treat whomever it is their job to heal. In order to be ethical they must be impartial.
But to be in love is to be partial. It is to be specific. All romantic love is conditional, in that the condition is the persons essential nature. Their themness. If your love for a person isn’t predicated on the condition that they are them, right now as they are, and is instead predicated on their need for that love, or on your thinking that you could do a good job of making that person happier or better, then you are a nurse. You are a robot hero. And maybe you can save the day but you are not a lover. You are not in love.”
“Doctors and nurses seemed to have been born and raised in the hospital, with only short punctuations of absenteeism for such things as schooling and marriage.”
Source: Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon
“Doctors and nurses typically work in very high radiation environments and I would not expect them to have robust immune systems.”
“Doctors and nurses will never understand your romantic feelings. Because for them the heart is only there to pump blood throughout the body, they cannot see anything beyond their nose. They also cannot point to the source of love in the body.”
“Doctors and nurses, with their training and their experiences, they would be able to detect unusual patterns of disease. That's why we say it is important for every country to have a proper surveillance system. The function of the surveillance system is to detect unusual patterns of diseases.”
“Doctors and patients need as much data as possible to make an informed decision about what treatment is best.”
“Doctors and scientists said breaking the four-minute mile was impossible, that one would die in the attempt. Thus, when I got up from the track after collapsing at the finish line, I figured I was dead”
“Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.”
“Doctors are busy playing God when so few of us have the qualifications. And besides, the job is taken.”
“Doctors are directly responsible for hooking millions of people on prescription drugs. They are also indirectly responsible for the plight of millions more who turn to illegal drugs because they were taught at an early age that drugs can cure anything - including psychological and emotional conditions - that ails them.”
“Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.”
“Doctors are mostly impostors. The older a doctor is and the more venerated he is, the more he must pretend to know everything. Of course, they grow worse with time. Always look for a doctor who is hated by the best doctors. Always seek out a bright young doctor before he comes down with nonsense.”
“Doctors are my most favorite (human) conversation Partners.”
“Doctors are not servants of their patients, they are traders like everyone else in a free society and they should bear that title proudly considering the crucial importance of the services they offer.”
Source: The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought
“Doctors are one of the most exposed professions to wireless radiation.”
“Doctors are our partners, and they need all the assistance we can give them to be sure we get the right diagnosis.”
“Doctors are taught in medical school that people ususally underreport their alcohol and drug use, so we genreal double the amount we're told. Don't be insulted if your doctor asks follow-up questions about yout drinking. We're trying to be diligent so we don't miss an alcohol or drug disorfer that could be amenable to treatment.”
“Doctors are taught to write expensive prescriptions and lots of them!”
“Doctors bury their mistakes, Architects cover them with ivy”
“Doctors bury their mistakes, but mine are still on scholarship.”
“Doctors can be replaced by software – 80% of them can. I’d much rather have a good machine learning system diagnose my disease than the median or average doctor.”
“Doctors can do almost anything nowadays, can't they, unless they kill you while they're trying to cure you.”
Source: Endless night
“Doctors can heal the body, but it is music that uplifts the spirit.”
“Doctors can predict these things [tumors] just as long as they get access to people.”
“Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.”
“Doctors couldn't figure out why I had trouble walking as a child, nor could they figure out why I was able to begin walking and, eventually, running. I think of it as a reminder that all of our bodies are different - - and so are our experiences with disabilities. -- Fauja Singh”
Source: Fauja Singh Keeps Going: The True Story of the Oldest Person to Ever Run a Marathon
“Doctors couldn't be everywhere, so the Lord invented Vulcans. I thought you knew.”
Source: Doctor's Orders
“Doctors cure the more serious diseases with harsh remedies. Curtius Medici graviores morbos asperis remediis curant”
“Doctors don't believe anything unless you can prove it to them.”
Source: The Time Traveler's Wife
“Doctors don't know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in the spirit.”
“Doctors don’t seem to realize that most of us are perfectly content not having to visualize ourselves as animated bags of skin filled with obscene glop.”
Source: The Forever War
“doctors & druggists wash each other's hands”
Source: Canterbury Tales