Famous Quotes & Sayings

The expectation was I would get married and become a mother and settle down. We didn't have any role models. We saw teachers and doctors and nurses, but I'm not a teacher, and there was no possibility of being a doctor or a nurse. I had to work and find my own way.

Alexander Pope

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

Debi Thomas

I wanted to be a doctor since I was five.

Donald Berwick

As a doctor, an educator, an innovator and someone who has dedicated his professional career to making things work better and to helping people – I am ready to lead,

Donald Berwick

Traditional medical ethics, based on the doctor-patient relationship must be changed... The primary function of health care regulations should be to limit an individuals own decision-making!

Debi Thomas

For as long as I can really remember, I wanted to be a doctor.

Andre Holland

People do come up to me quite a lot. I get called all of it. I rarely get called my name; it's usually "Hey, Dr. Edwards!" or "Algernon." The most common thing is, "You're the black doctor on that show!" I'll take any of it, because I've definitely been called much worse things.

Ann Richards

Doctors are our partners, and they need all the assistance we can give them to be sure we get the right diagnosis.

Aneurin Bevan

What should be the glory of the profession is that a doctor should be able to meet his patients with no financial anxiety.

Andrew Weil

It's rare - too rare, I have to say - for botanists to become doctors.

Chuck Grassley

The public relies on the advice of doctors and leading researchers. The public has a right to know about financial relationships between those doctors and the drug companies who make the pharmaceuticals prescribed by doctors.

Christopher Moore

The netherworld is timeless and unchanging, and boring -- much like a doctor's waiting room.

Donna Summer

I realized that I had a serious problem with depression, and I went to a doctor and he gave me some medication.

Donna Shalala

I am interested in getting people to use the healthcare system at the right time, getting them to see the doctor early enough, before a small health problem turns serious.

Dylan Moran

It should not be an act of social disobedience to light a cigarette. Unless you're actually a doctor working at an incubator.

Alonzo Mourning

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.

Anne Sexton

If the doctors cure then the sun sees it. If the doctors kill then the earth hides it. The doctors should fear arrogance more than cardiac arrest.

Anna Deavere Smith

I am lucky: I have fantastic doctors and a fantastic dentist.

Andrew Taylor Still

To find health should be the object of the doctor. Any one can find disease.

Andrew Lansley

Look back to 1948 when the British Medical Association denounced Aneurin Bevan as 'a would-be Führer' for wanting them to join a National Health Service. And Bevan himself described the BMA as 'politically poisoned people'. A survey at the time showed only 10 per cent of doctors backed the plans ... But where would we be today if my predecessors had caved in?

Andre Leon Talley

Waiting in line for something mundane is very boring. Waiting for my doctor to see me and waiting for my dentist to see me, yes, that is boring.

Anna Quindlen

There may perhaps be a new generation of doctors horrified by lacerations, infections, women who have douched with kitchen cleanser. What an irony it would be if fanatics continued to kill and yet it was the apathy and silence of the medical profession that most wounded the ability to provide what is, after all, a medical procedure.

Cindy Crawford

I am the doctor of our family, and I am a big fan of homeopathy.

Andrew Johnson

My right side is paralyzed. I need no doctor. I can overcome my own troubles.

Amy Ryan

There are so many choices I made simply for health insurance. Is it the ideal role I wanted to play, or the TV show I wanted to be a part of? No, but it let me afford to go to the doctor.

Anthony Burgess

Keep away from physicians. It is all probing and guessing and pretending with them. They leave it to Nature to cure in her own time, but they take the credit. As well as very fat fees.

If someone walked into the room and said Keith is ready, healthy, beautiful, the doctors think it?s wonderful and he can play, everybody would be all excited around here. No one has said that.

We had medical reports in which the doctors suggested the player was ready to play. I'm troubled by it. But you take me back to the moment I said Luis Ayala should be able to play, I have no doubt I made the right decision.

Alexis Carrel

If the doctor of today does not become the dietician of tomorrow, the dietician of today will become the doctor of tomorrow.

Alexandra Fuller

There aren't enough doctors in Africa. Those who choose to become doctors here don't do it for the money or because they want to do good. They do it because they have to heal, the way most people need to breathe or eat or love.

Albert Schweitzer

It's supposed to be a secret, but I'll tell you anyway. We doctors do nothing. We only help. And encourage the doctor within.

Albert Schweitzer

Within every patient there resides a doctor, and we as physicians are at our best when we we put our patients in touch with the doctor inside themselves.

One of doctors is very conversant in Japanese. He will be working to help them if there are any problems.