Quotessence
Home / Topics / Doctors Quotes

Doctors Quotes

Browse 2786 quotes about Doctors.

Related topics

IfsPeopleThinkingKnowsDoctor WhoPatientSaidMedicalMedicineMenShouldWantWayWellsLawyerYearsCareNeedsWorldGivingFeelsWantedDiseaseFunnyFirstsChildrenLooksTwoI CanMayHas BeensMotherHelpingPhysiciansStrangeDoeKindLittlesHeartHospitalsMadeMeanBelieveJobsProblemSchoolWould BeNurseHumorTryingSickAbleBodyDonePlayFatherHealth CareIdeasStoriesAgeHumansPersonsHealthRealStillsCancerMightShowsCuresLongOfficeTeacherTodayAsksBookDiesEndsUseDifferentFactsParentThreeWritingCountryDrugEnoughMindProfessionHardImportantKidsUsedBigsPainCharacterArtMatterActorsHandsIllnessmore

Doctors Quotes

“But whatever you do, take neither yourselves nor your fellow-creatures too seriously. There is tragedy enough in our daily routine, but there is room too for a keen sense of the absurdities and incongruities of life, and in the shifting panorama no one sees better than the doctor the perennial sameness of men’s ways.”

MenWayEnoughRoomsCreaturesDoctorsTragedyFellowsRoutineAbsurdityShiftingSamenessDaily RoutinesIncongruityPanorama
Book:The Quotable Osler
Create image

“You and I must work together to develop our country, to get education for our children, to have doctors, to build roads, to improve or provide all day-to-day essentials.”

ChildrenCountryTogetherEssentialsDoctorsOur ChildrenOur CountryWorking TogetherDay To Day
Book:Harambee!: The Prime Minister of Kenya's Speeches, 1963-1964 : from the Attainment of Internal Self Government to the Threshold of the Kenya Republic
Create image

“So deep and meaningful is the joy and the enthusiasm that is born in one's mind and heart by human love and helpfulness that it has the power to motivate for a lifetime. . . . You don't have to be a doctor to say or do that which puts light in a human eye or joy on a human face. Simply practice Jesus' commandment that we love one another. Go out and do something for somebody. These are the things that make happy people. Here is the one never-failing source of the joy and enthusiasm we are talking about.”

PeopleLoveMindHumansHeartLightEyeFacesJoyJesusBornTalkingPracticeFailingSourceDoctorsLifetimeMeaningfulEnthusiasmCommandmentsHeart And MindLove One AnotherHappy PeopleHuman LoveHuman FacesHelpfulnessHuman EyesMake HappyDeep And Meaningful
Author:Norman Vincent Peale
Create image

“A very real barrier to faith is this feeling of self-sufficiency, this unrealistic idea that one can accomplish everything by his or her own self. Some people have the conviction they must do it all alone. They have no faith in others. . . they are convinced that there is no one able to do the job as well as themselves. They refuse to admit that they may need the help of friends, doctor, minister, or even God.”

PeopleNeedsWellsMayIdeasRealSelfHelpingFeelingsAbleJobsFaithDoctorsRefuseConvictionAccomplishConvincedMinistersBarriersFaith In GodAll AloneSelf SufficiencySufficiency
Author:Norman Vincent Peale
Create image

“I am sorry the infernal Divinities, who visit mankind with diseases, and are therefore at perpetual war with Doctors, should have prevented my seeing all you great Men at Soho to-day-Lord! what inventions, what wit, what rhetoric, metaphysical, mechanical and pyrotecnical, will be on the wing, bandy'd like a shuttlecock from one to another of your troop of philosophers! while poor I, I by myself I, imprizon'd in a post chaise, am joggled, and jostled, and bump'd, and bruised along the King's high road, to make war upon a pox or a fever!”

MenShouldWarPoorLordSeeingMankindKingsDiseaseShould HaveDoctorsWingsSorryPhilosopherWitInventionPostsGreat MenDivinityPerpetualRhetoricMetaphysicalFeverBumpsBruisedI Am SorryAm SorryHigh RoadPoxSohoPerpetual WarShuttlecock
Author:Erasmus Darwin
Create image

“Far too many doctors-many of them excellent physicians-commit suicide each year; one recent study concluded that, until quite recently, the United States lost annually the equivalent of a medium-sized medical school class from suicide alone. Most physician suicides are due to depression or manic-depressive illness, both of which are eminently treatable. Physicians, unfortunately, not only suffer from a higher rate of mood disorders than the general population, they also have a greater access to very effective means of suicide.”

YearsMeanStatesSchoolSufferingLostUnitedClassUnited StatesStudyGreaterHigherDoctorsSuicideRatePopulationIllnessDuesAccessMedicalMoodCommitMediumsExcellentDisorderPhysiciansManicMedical SchoolDepressiveYear OneMood Disorders
Book:An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
Create image

“I was given five injections. That evening I developed extremely high fever. I was trembling. My arms and my legs were swollen, huge size. Mengele and Dr. Konig and three other doctors came in the next morning. They looked at my fever chart, and Dr. Mengele said, laughingly, 'Too bad, she is so young. She has only two weeks to live ..'”

SaidTwoYoungThreeNextGivenMorningFiveWeekHugeArmsDoctorsSizeLegsEveningDrsFeverTwo WeeksTremblingSwollenInjection
Author:Eva Mozes Kor
Create image

“To its devotees the bowtie suggests iconoclasm of an Old World sort, a fusty adherence to a contrarian point of view. The bowtie hints at intellectualism, real or feigned, and sometimes suggests technical acumen, perhaps because it is so hard to tie. BowTies are worn by magicians, country doctors, lawyers and professors and by people hoping to look like the above. But perhaps most of all, wearing a bow tie is a way of broadcasting an aggressive lack of concern for what other people think.”

PeopleThinkingWorldWayLooksRealCountrySometimesHardViewsConcernDoctorsPoint Of ViewLawyerTiesProfessorsAggressiveBowsWornMagicianHintsIntellectualismOld WorldBroadcastingDevoteeAdherenceAcumenBow TieIconoclasm
Author:Warren St. John
Create image

“Bypass surgery, angioplasty,and even diagnostic angiograms are so over used that, in my opinion, it constitutes criminal behaviour by the cardiologists and surgeons involved. Well controlled scientific studies have shown bypass surgery simply doesn't work, except to relieve severe chest pain. Those who have the surgery didn't even have a trend of longevity benefit compared to those treated without it. Yet, each year hundreds of thousands cave into the obvious fear tactics used by agressive heart doctors and submit to the bypass operation”

YearsWellsHeartPainUsedOpinionStudyInvolvedBenefitsDoctorsObviousCriminalsTreatedOperationsControlledChestsTrendsSubmitBehaviourLongevitySurgerySevereCavesTacticsSurgeonsBypassCardiologistAgressive
Author:Julian Whitaker
Create image

“At Planned Parenthood, we see the impact of abortion stigma firsthand, in the women who delay getting reproductive health care because they fear they’ll be labeled and judged. We see the effect of stigma on doctors, health center staffers, and others who help provide abortion services. And we see the impact in laws that regulate and restrict abortion in ways that would never happen with any other medical procedure.”

WayHelpingHappensCareLawEffectsDoctorsImpactMedicalHealth CareAbortionParenthoodJudgedDelayProceduresIn-lawsStigmaPlanned ParenthoodReproductive HealthMedical Procedures
Author:Cecile Richards
Create image

“Vague promises of savings from cutting waste, enhancing prevention and wellness, installing electronic medical records and improving quality are merely ‘lipstick’ cost control, more for show and public relations than for true change... Savings will require changing how doctors think about their patients: Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously, “as an imperative to do everything for the patient regardless of the cost or effects on others.”

ThinkingShowsQualityRecordsCuttingEffectsPromiseCostWasteDoctorsRelationPatientMedicalSavingWellnessVagueImprovingImperativesSavingsOathLipstickPublic RelationsPreventionMedical Records
Author:Ezekiel Emanuel
Create image

“Robin Williams was an airman, a doctor, a genie, a nanny, a president, a professor, a bangarang Peter Pan, and everything in between. But he was one of a kind. He arrived in our lives as an alien - but he ended up touching every element of the human spirit. He made us laugh. He made us cry. He gave his immeasurable talent freely and generously to those who needed it most - from our troops stationed abroad to the marginalized on our own streets. The Obama family offers our condolences to Robin’s family, his friends, and everyone who found their voice and their verse thanks to Robin Williams.”

HumansKindMadeSpiritFoundPresidentVoiceLaughingOur LivesStreetsTalentCryNeededOffersElementsDoctorsThanksAliensTouchingProfessorsPeterTroopsVersesHuman SpiritRobinsOur TroopsMarginalizedCondolencesNanniesOne Of A KindGeniesAirmenOur Condolences
Author:Barack Obama
Create image

“I know that if I feel any deprivation or fear [about money], the solution is to give. The solution is to go find some mothers on the streets of San Raphael and give them tens and twenties and mail off another $50 to Doctors Without Borders to use for the refugees in Kosovo. Because I know that giving is the way we can feel abundant. Giving is the way that we fill ourselves up.... For me the way to fill up is through service and sharing and getting myself to give more than I feel comfortable giving.”

IfsKnowsWayGivingFeelsUseMotherStreetsComfortableSolutionsDoctorsTwentiesBordersMailRefugeeDeprivationRaphaelKosovoDoctors Without Borders
Author:Anne Lamott
Create image

“The question is, whether, like the Divine Child in the Temple, we are turning knowledge into wisdom, and whether, understanding more of the mysteries of life, we are feeling more of its sacred law; and whether, having left behind the priests and the scribes and the doctors and the fathers, we are about our Father's business, and becoming wise to God.”

ChildrenFeelingsWisdomLawFatherLeftUnderstandingBehindsWiseMysteryDivineBecomingDoctorsSacredTemplesPriestsLeft BehindOur FatherMystery Of LifeScribesBecoming Wise
Book:Sermons Preached at Brighton
Create image

“The English language may hold a more disagreeable combination of words than "The doctor will see you now." I am willing to concede something to the phrase "Have you anything to say before the current is turned on?" That may be worse for the moment, but it doesn't last so long. For continued, unmitigating depression, I know nothing to equal "The doctor will see you now." But I'm not narrow-minded about it. I'm willing to consider other possibilities.”

KnowsMayLongMomentsLastsLanguagePossibilityWillingEqualDoctorsCurrentsCombinationPhrasesEnglish LanguageDisagreeableNarrow-minded
Book:Love Conquers All
Create image

“I agree that marijuana laws are overdue for an overhaul. I also favor the medical use of marijuana -- if it's prescribed by a physician. I cannot understand why the federal government should interfere with the doctor-patient relationship, nor why it would ignore the will of a majority of voters who have legally approved such legislation.”

IfsShouldUseGovernmentLawDoctorsAgreeMajorityPatientMedicalFavorsVotersMarijuanaPhysiciansInterfereLegislationFederal GovernmentProhibitionApprovedOverdue
Author:Abigail Van Buren
Create image

“It's past parsons to console us: No, nor no doctor fetch for me: I can die without my bolus; Two of a trade, lass, never agree! Parson and Doctor!--don't they love rarely Fighting the devil in other men's fields! Stand up yourself and match him fairly: Then see how the rascal yields!”

MenI CanTwoPastDiesFightingFieldsDevilDoctorsAgreeTradeYieldConsoleFetchRascals
Book:Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside: With Poems and Ballads
Create image

“Fifteen years ago tomorrow I had open heart surgery, a quintuple bypass surgery. Thanks to all of my doctors. Because of them, in 15 years of life I've been able to experience, well, acid reflux, short-term memory loss, and erectile dysfunction. Thanks for all your work. It's great to be alive.”

YearsWellsHeartAbleTermMemoriesLossAliveTomorrowYears AgoDoctorsThanksWorking ItFifteenSurgeryShort TermAcidOpen HeartFifteen YearsDysfunctionMemory LossBypassYears Of LifeHeart SurgeryShort Term MemoryAcid Reflux
Author:David Letterman
Create image

“Every region should retain representative samples of its original or wilderness condition, to serve science as a sample of normality. Just as doctors must study healthy people to understand disease, so must the land sciences study the wilderness to understand disorders of the land-mechanism.”

PeopleShouldStudyLandConditionsHealthyDiseaseDoctorsOriginalsRegionsWildernessDisorderMechanismRepresentativesSampleNormality
Book:For the Health of the Land: Previously Unpublished Essays And Other Writings
Create image

“Someone who has thought rationally and deeply about how the body works is likely to arrive at better ideas about how to be healthy than someone who has followed a hunch. Medicine presupposes a hierarchy between the confusion the layperson will be in about what is wrong with him, and the more accurate knowledge available to doctors reasoning logically. At the heart of Epicureanism is the thought that we are as bad at answering the question "What will make me happy?" as "What will make me healthy?" Our souls do not spell out their troubles.”

HeartIdeasSoulBodyTroubleHealthyDoctorsMedicineAvailableConfusionReasoningSpellsAccurateHierarchyMake Me HappyHunchesEpicureanismBody Work
Author:Alain de Botton
Create image

“There aren't enough professionals to solve the world's problems. There will never be enough doctors to solve the health problems of the world. There will never be enough teachers to solve the education problems of the world - illiteracy. There will never be enough missionaries to care and comfort and share the Good News. It has to be done by normal, ordinary people.”

PeopleWorldDoneEnoughProblemCareTeacherShareComfortNormalNewsOrdinaryDoctorsSolveGood NewsOrdinary PeopleIlliteracyHealth Problems
Author:Rick Warren
Create image