Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dianne Feinstein

Today we have a health insurance industry where the first and foremost goal is to maximize profits for shareholders and CEOs, not to cover patients who have fallen ill or to compensate doctors and hospitals for their services. It is an industry that is increasingly concentrated and where Americans are paying more to receive less.

David Agus

I want doctors to treat toward health and not treat toward disease,

David Mixner

For many people with HIV, finding the right doctor is the most important decision they'll make.

Dave Barry

Before going on a diet you should consult your doctor, or at least send him some money.

Dave Barry

It is a good idea to 'shop around' before you settle on a doctor. Ask about the condition of his Mercedes. Ask about the competence of his mechanic. Don't be shy! After all, you're paying for it.

David Tennant

I was always going to act, literally ever since I was tiny. In fact, I have Doctor Who to thank for that. I wanted to become an actor after being obsessed with Tom Baker, the fourth Doctor Who, in the 1970s. His was the definitive performance of all time in anything.

Bill Snyder

As far as I know, my doctor has not complained well, he's complained about some of my habits, ... But to my knowledge, I'm physically fine.

Our dog sat down at a dog show at a time when the dog was supposed to stand up. That person went to her doctor and learned she had a melanoma." ()

John Schuerholz

Our doctors say this is an injury that will heal itself.

Our doctors had no reason to doubt his story.

People start to worry that something may have gone wrong, and I think the doctors involved should give the people a regular update so they can be reassured.

People come in to see a doctor at the worst moments in their lives. It's the least likely time to remember everything the doctor tells them.

Roma Downey

Operation Smile invites the local medical teams to try to learn the skills required. Their philosophy is that if you give a man a fish he'll eat for a day, but if you teach him to fish, he'll eat for his lifetime. They're really trying to show these local doctors how to... perform the operation.

Rebecca Skloot

Often doctors didn't even tell you what was wrong with you. They just treated you, and sent you home.

Actually, he was over the threshold of dying. Doctors told me to make final arrangements.

Eliot Spitzer

Any doctor keeps a list of possible remedies available.

Herb Williams

The team doctor told him she didn't want him standing up. She wanted him to stay pretty calm.

Lykke Li

I used to get really sick. I would go to the doctor with all these ailments, and they would tell me I needed to be at home. I didn't even really understand what that meant because since I was a baby, I've always been moving, moving, and then touring.

Stork bite. It'll go away, the doctor said, probably by the time she's in kindergarten.

One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

The scars have considerably healed. The doctors are confident.

Suzanne Somers

I understand from a physiological standpoint, but you really need a doctor to explain it and even then you will never understand it.

Fidel Castro

These doctors could all already be there providing their services,

J. Taylor

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

Jennifer Brown

I've been going to my doctor for years, and I didn't want her to know, because I didn't know what the results would be.

Michael Vick

The way I feel and from what the doctors tell me, I don't feel like it's serious. We just took the precaution to come out.

Tom Anderson

The way doctors learn right now is pretty scary. The first 50 times they do a procedure on a live patient, they're learning.

The virtue of seeing a doctor who knows you is, if you come in and say, 'I have a headache,' he or she knows whether you always have headaches or if this is an earth-shattering event because you haven't had a headache in 40 years.

Shonda Rhimes

This isn't a traditional medical drama. I've always said from the beginning, we're a relationship show with surgery. It's never about the patients. It's about how the doctors feel about the patients.

The unknown was pretty scary. But now that we know it's treatable, and we trust our doctors, and we've had tremendous support from family and friends, I'm doing really, really well.

Barry Bonds

That's what my goal is right now and I expect to be ready, ... But the doctors are telling me playing this year might put that in jeopardy, that I could undo any gains I've already made. No matter how much I want to play, I'm not going to let that happen.

That's for doctors and commissioners to decide. Every fighter is at risk when they walk in that ring. Antonio Tarver has as much to win or lose Saturday night as Roy Jones does.

The most he can live, the most, even if he has an operation, the doctor told me, would be a year,