Doctor Quotes

Time is generally the best doctor.

A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist; he is either, like the surgeon, a craftsman, or, like the physician and the psychologist, an artist. This means that in order to be a good doctor a man must also have a good character, that is to say, whatever weaknesses and foibles he may have, he must love his fellow human beings in the concrete and desire their good before his own.

My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.

A male doctor will probably not be able to examine a Muslim woman.

It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

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

My doctor explained that exercise and diet changes might help and that I also might need a medication.

I believe I can do anything. If I decide I want to be a doctor tomorrow, I'm going to be a doctor.

If your doctor won't discuss your health with you, you need to change doctors. We want patients to be concerned and be responsible for their health. We want them involved.

The kind of doctor I want is one who when he's not examining me is home studying medicine.

The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.

Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.

Once my doctor began treating my kidney disease, my greatest challenge was the constant exhaustion. Fortunately, my doctor explained that anemia was causing my exhaustion and that people with serious illnesses, like kidney disease, may be at increased risk for anemia.

Being a doctor has taught me a lot about directing. You're doing the same thing: You're reconstructing the manifold of behavior to the point where an audience says, yes, that's exactly like people I know.

Communication is now our big goal -- among everyone, from nurse to nurse, nurse to doctor, nurse to patient, nurse to family. Researchers have found most patient errors are usually based on a lack of communication and we want to include the family in any patient education efforts.

It is a sad time in our little town. He was our doctor, our mentor and our friend.

I think it will be okay, ... I hope the doctor will help me out because it's quite sore. We'll see.

I'm stiff right now. The doctor said I'm going to feel the effects for a couple of days. ... It's just more of a muscle ache and having a really, really sore neck.

I started feeling sick, so the doctor sent me to the Matthew Walker Health Centre.

I think the parole board is acting irresponsibly and outrageously. The doctor in the prison keeps telling us, 'What can I do to get him out? He shouldn't be in here.

If your doctor says don't wear your contact lens overnight, don't wear them overnight! Replace them on schedule, so you have fresh lens, and make sure always to practice good hygiene.

The good thing is it's not in the belly of the hamstring. The doctor looked at it twice and the second time he saw it, he was very pleased with what he saw.

The eye doctor that I was going to since I was 7, for eight years never checked the pressure in my eye. If he had, my eye would have been saved.

[Brooks, who plays a doctor in the film, feels laughter is indeed the best medicine.] If you don't laugh, you don't get that circulation and you die, ... So if you watch 'Dracula, Dead and Loving It,' you will live a long time, if you don't see it you will die because you didn't laugh enough. Does that make sense? Sure, I'm a doctor as well as a director.