quotations about doctors
Medicine would be the ideal profession if it did not involve giving pain.
SAMUEL HOPKINS ADAMS
The Health Master
Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB/GYN's aren't able to practice their love with women all across the country.
GEORGE W. BUSH
speech in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, Sep. 6, 2004
I need a doctor to cure me
Use your stethoscope now
Here's my heart, show you how
Make your eardrums go pow
Doctor, my favorite prescription
Just as the doctor's description
Get your medicine down
Stop the room going round
I'll take the cure
And that's because you're
The doctor
KIKI DEE
"Doctor in Clover"
Men who are occupied in the restoration of health to other men, by the joint exertion of skill and humanity, are above all the great of the earth. They even partake of divinity, since to preserve and renew is almost as noble as to create.
VOLTAIRE
"Physicians,", Philosophical Dictionary
The doctor is not unfrequently death's pilot-fish.
GEORGE DENISON PRENTICE
Prenticeana
I have had too much experience of life to believe in the infallibility of doctors. Some of them are clever men and some of them are not, and half the time the best of them don't know what is the matter with you.
AGATHA CHRISTIE
The Thirteen Problems
You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
Junky
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
"The Guermantes Way,", Remembrance of Things Past
The public look on, a little bewildered; for who is to decide when doctors disagree?
ALFRED AUSTIN
The Bridling of Pegasus
I don't believe the kindliest of men ever learned about the death of his doctor without a feeling of smugness.
RICHARD GORDON
Bedside Manners
"We just want to rule some things out," they all say--doctor code for "brain tumor/cancer/meningitis-TV-movie disease of the week."
LIBBY BRAY
Going Bovine
Each patient carries his own doctor inside him.
NORMAN COUSINS
Anatomy of an Illness
The doctor's in
The nurse is hot
Swab some cotton
Cause you're getting a shot
NICHOLSON BAKER
Traveling Sprinkler
Any physician who advertises a positive cure for any disease, who issues nostrum testimonials, who sells his services to a secret remedy, or who diagnoses and treats by mail patients he has never seen, is a quack.
SAMUEL HOPKINS ADAMS
"The Sure-Cure School", Collier's Weekly, Jul. 14, 1906
It is the fee that draws the doctor.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
It is not much trouble to doctor sick folks, but to doctor healthy ones is troublesome.
H. W. SHAW
attributed, Day's Collacon
Medicines cure diseases, but only doctors can cure patients.
CARL JUNG
attributed, 20,000 Quips & Quotes
A doctor is a man who writes prescriptions, till the patient either dies or is cured by nature.
JOHN TAYLOR
attributed, Day's Collacon
Physicians are, some of them, so pleasing and conformable to the humor of the patient, as they press not the true cure of the disease; and some other are so regular, in proceeding according to art for the disease, as they respect not sufficiently the condition of the patient. Take one of a middle temper; or if it may not be found in one man, combine two of either sort; and forget not to call as well, the best acquainted with your body, as the best reputed of for his faculty.
FRANCIS BACON
"Of Regiment Of Health", The Essays or Counsels
Disease increases in proportion to the increase in the number of doctors in a place.
MAHATMA GANDHI
The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi