D Quotes
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“Doctors frequently get it wrong. One out of five patients today is in the hospital because incorrect treatment by a physician put him or her there.”
“Doctors have an ethical duty to follow the practices and standards of care.”
“Doctors have been exposed-you always will be exposed-to the attacks of those persons who consider their own undisciplined emotions more important than the world's most bitter agonies-the people who would limit and cripple and hamper research because they fear research may be accompanied by a little pain and suffering.”
“Doctors have been treating altitude sickness induced depression with creatine for many years.”
Source: Pandemic Supplements
“Doctors have throughout time made fortunes on killing their patients with their cures. The difference in psychiatry is that it is the death of the soul.”
“Doctors have told me I have a high pain threshold, but I can only know what I feel. I think I'm good at minimising the pain and being indifferent to it.”
“Doctors in 1945 would report that one of Berlin's children's favorite games was 'rape.' When they saw a man in uniform--even a Salvation Army uniform--they would start screaming hysterically.”
Source: The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour
“Doctors keep their scalpels and other instruments handy, for emergencies. Keep your philosophy ready too - ready to understand heaven and earth. In everything you do, even the smallest thing, remember the chain that links them. Nothing earthly succeeds by ignoring heaven, nothing heavenly by ignoring earth.”
Source: Meditations: A New Translation
“Doctors know nothing. Well. That's kind of unfair. Let's just say the world is unpredictable. Science is unreliable. It can't tell you who you are or what you'll want or how you'll feel. All these researchers are going crazy in their labs, trying to fit us into these little boxes so they can justify their jobs, or their government funding, or their life's work. They can theorize and they can give you a mean, median and mode but it's all standardized guesswork, made official by arrogance. You have to be pretty into yourself to think you can play a part in defining the identity of a bunch of people you don't know, of human beings with complicated shit going on in their bodies. They still don't know what certain parts of our brains do, they still don't know how to cure a common cold, and they say they know about sexuality, about gender. Well, you're not a man because you like football and you're not a woman because you're attracted to men and you're not a chick because you like to be the one who gives and you're not a dude because you like to receive or because sometimes you cry at dumb movies.”
Source: Golden Boy
“Doctors Learn The Nuts And Bolts Of Surgery Robots While Robots Learns The Flesh and Blood of Patients”
Source: My Brain is Mad About Alzheimer's Brain
“Doctors may have told you there is no hope for you medically, but you can always find supernatural HOPE from God's Word.”
“Doctors may kill you with their toxic prescription drugs if you let them.”
“Doctors may not recommend laughter because it is not something they can sell.
Laugh while you can, to avoid a doctor’s prescription.”
Source: The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes
“Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense”
“Doctors, nurses, supporting staff and patients are together in a team, with one aim, to win.”
“Doctors, professors, and scientists were unknowingly assimilating incorrect or half-true information in order to regurgitate it to the populace. Because the populace held these professions in the highest regard, their disseminated information was believed as if it was coming out of the mouth of gods.”
Source: The Beasts of Success
“Doctors put a wall up between themselves and their patients; nurses broke it down.”
Source: The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes
“Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.”
“Doctors rarely fix their patients health issues. Instead, the patient gets put on a toxic cocktail of prescription drugs for the rest of their life that typically makes them sicker. In engineering, if you could not fix broken systems, you would likely be fired.”
“Doctors removed my gallbladder and pancreas, which are supposed to break down sugar and alcohol.”
“Doctors, Researchers, Scientists, Writers and Poets life is spent in reading and research I guess.”
“Doctors said 'go home and enjoy what little is left of your life'. He recovered.”
“Doctors said that the test most commonly used to screen for colon cancer doesn't go far enough. They're recommending a procedure that involves photographing the entire colon. I say, don't vie CBS an idea for another reality show.”
“Doctors say it's okay to have sex after a heart attack, provided you close the ambulance door.”
“Doctors seem to work on the following premise: Diagnose a condition and put them on a prescription drug. If they keep on complaining, diagnose more conditions and prescribe many drugs to ‘treat’ them.”
“Doctors should first understand the cause of disease, then treat it with diet. Medicine should only be used if diet fails”
“Doctors should recognise the importance of the five human values; Truth, righteousness, Peace, Love and Non-violence. Love is the basis for all the other values. Doctors can infuse courage in patients by the love they show towards the patients. If doctors carry out their duties with love they will be crowned with success.”
“Doctors should study professional astronomers to diagnose the mental health conditions that are driving them to damage their workers health in order to obtain tainted astronomical data.”
“Doctors still retain a high degree of public confidence because they are perceived as healers. Should lawyers not be healers? Healers, not warriors? Healers, not procurers? Healers, not hired guns?”
“Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously, as an imperative to do everything for the patient regardless of the cost or effects on others”
“Doctors tell me I have the body of a thirty year old. I know I have the brain of a fifteen year old. If you've got both, you can play baseball.”
“Doctors think a lot of patients are cured who have simply quit in disgust.”
“Doctors treating sickened university students will need to factor in radio wave sickness to reach an accurate diagnosis.”
“Doctors were allergic to the smell of death. Death meant failure, defeat--their death, the death of medicine, the death of oncology.”
Source: The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
“Doctors who want power will do anything to get it; healers will do anything to get away from it.”
Source: Le Chœur des femmes
“Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.”
“Doctors' investment in radium...the price of radium increased 1,000% when they began to use it on cancer victims.”
“Doctors, by God; washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair.”
Source: Clock Without Hands
“Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the earliest records of every culture on earth. It is hard to think of a more dependable or enduring occupation, harder still to imagine any future events leading to its extinction.”
Source: Fragile Species
“Doctors...from the Office of Info. Tech. at Harvard U.(:)...Their appraisal of 46 surgical or anesthesia breakthroughs...suggested...only 13% were highly preferred (and)...in nearly half the cases the new therapy was no better than the therapy it replaced. ...About 12% of the innovations increased complications.”
“Doctors?" said Ron, looking startled. "Those Muggle nutters that cut people up?”
“Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam. Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.”
“Doctrinal preaching certainly bores the hypocrites; but it is only doctrinal preaching that will save Christ's sheep.”
“Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship - and not as ends in themselves.”
“Doctrine divides, but doctrine also unites. It binds together the hearts of God's people who celebrate the truth of God together.”
“Doctrine does matter.”
“Doctrine does matter. But one must ever be reminded that to be right on doctrine does not mean one is right with the Lord.”
“Doctrine is a wonderful servant and a horrible master.”
Source: Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith
“Doctrine is not an affair of the tongue but of the life.”
Source: On the Christian Life (Annotated Edition)
“Doctrine is the frame-work of life; it is the skeleton of truth, to be clothed and rounded out by the living graces of a holy life. It is only the lean creature whose bones become offensive.”