Doctors Patients Quotes

So the effect of this Republican provision to allow doctors to be gagged from even discussing abortion with their patients is outrageous. — Frank Lautenberg

Compassionate doctors sometimes lie to patients about the severity of their condition, and it is not always wrong to do so. — Richard Dawkins

Like many doctors of his era, TeLinde often used patients from the public wards for research, usually without their knowledge. — Rebecca Skloot

there's that study that says doctors do a worse job prognosticating for patients they're personally invested in. — Paul Kalanithi

The young doctor should look about early for an avocation, a pastime, that will take him away from patients, pills, and potions ... — William Osler

I truly feel the best doctors are ones who are criticized by nurses, patients and family. They do not make excuses and learn from their mistakes. — Bernie Siegel

Great hospitals do two things. They look after patients, and they teach young doctors. We look after clients, and we teach young advertising people. — David Ogilvy

The doctor will persist in laboring under the delusion that patients want common sense instead of magic. — Rae Foley

How little do doctors understand the hells through which we put patients. — Paul Kalanithi

Indie authors write, design, sell. Like magic, skip one and you make must read vanish. — Temple Emmet Williams

An enormous mass of experience, both of homeopathic doctors and their patients, is invoked in favor of the efficacy of these remedies and doses. — William James

If doctors just spent more time with their patients so they felt more reassured, that might help. — Irving Kirsch

...younger patients, known as 'Acutes' because the doctors figure them still sick enough to be fixed... — Ken Kesey

Being a doctor, you are not supposed to give vent to any signs of revulsion on encountering the most noxious of odours or the most gruesome of sights. — Anurag Shourie

Doctors and patients need as much data as possible to make an informed decision about what treatment is best. — Ben Goldacre

A man cannot be a good doctor and keep telephoning his broker between patients nor a good lawyer with his eye on the ticker. — Walter Lippmann

Few gynecologists recommend to their heterosexual patients the most foolpoof of solutions, namely, misterectomy. — Mary Daly

Medicare is immune from the competitive pressures that force private insurers to pay attention to what patients and doctors want. — Virginia Postrel

The job of doctors is to supply up-to-date knowledge and skills. The job of patients is to supply the decisions. — Atul Gawande

Other doctors lose as many patients as I do, he would say. But with me they die happier. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Moist was sure doctors keep skeletons around to cow patients. Nyer, nyer, we know what you look underneath ... — Terry Pratchett

Jay Levy saw ten women," the doctor later recalled, "And he thought they were all hysterical. Then he saw a man, whose complaints he took seriously. — Hillary Johnson

Patients who trust their doctors and have a psychological expectation of getting better could trigger a reaction in their body. — Irving Kirsch

Doctors of ancient times used to recommend reading to their patients as a physical exercise on an equal level as walking, running, or ball-playing. — Jean Leclercq

Doctors try to get rid of their patients - clergymen try to get them hooked on the medicine so that they will become addicts to the church. — Alan W. Watts

One of the shortcomings of our medical system is that doctors have very little time with their patients. — Eula Biss

Doctors think a lot of patients are cured who have simply quit in disgust. — Herbert Hoover

Doctors frequently get it wrong. One out of five patients today is in the hospital because incorrect treatment by a physician put him or her there. — Andrew Saul

The Doctor's Motto: Have patients. — Ethel Mumford

Doctors put a wall up between themselves and their patients; nurses broke it down. — Jodi Picoult

Medicines cure diseases, but only doctors can cure patients. — Carl Jung

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

Doctors always think anybody doing something they aren't is a quack; also they think all patients are idiots. — Flannery O'Connor

There is among doctors, in acute hospitals at least, a presumption of stupidity in their patients. — Oliver Sacks

Now that doctors have stopped making house calls, lots of patients now have to die without their help. — Milton Berle

Using this novel method, doctors could treat female patients without violating the honor of her family. — Jack Weatherford

Never congratulate a doctor for the fast recovery of a patient. — Raheel Farooq

We can't socialize the doctors without socializing the patients. — Ronald Reagan

There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips. — Earl Campbell