Medicine Doctor Quotes

It's actually the spirit helping the spirit; it is the doctor, the bed, the potion. — Franz Grillparzer

A doctor's mission should not be to prevent death, but more importantly it should be to improve the quality of life. — Abhijit Naskar

Sometimes sports can provide a medicine that no doctor can provide. — Skip Bertman

People pay the doctor for his trouble; for his kindness they still remain in his debt. — Seneca The Younger

It is astonishing with how little reading a doctor can practice medicine, but is not astonishing how badly he may do it. — William Osler

A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care. — George Bernard Shaw

I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age. — Voltaire

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

By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too. — William Shakespeare

I wanted to be a doctor in sports medicine; I was into sailing and all that sort of thing. — Christopher Atkins

No doctor knows everything. There's a reason why it's called "practising" medicine. — Anonymous

Surely you couldn't be a good doctor and a terrible human being
surely the laws of man, if not God, didn't allow it. — Abraham Verghese

The doctor may also learn more about the illness from the way the patient tells the story than from the story itself. — James B. Herrick

Unhealthy behavior is actually common among doctors, who tend to know a lot about medicine but very little about health. — Sol Luckman

Gallows humor is part of having a doctor in the house. Deal with it. — J.R. Ward

Is there no hope? the sick man said, The silent doctor shook his head, And took his leave with signs of sorrow, Despairing of his fee to-morrow. — John Gay

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

So many people are stealing Bikram Yoga. It's like you're practicing medicine, but you're not a doctor. — Bikram Choudhury

At 3, I played an innocent game of doctor, minus the stethoscope and medicine bag. — Pattie Mallette

First do no harm. -Hippocrates
Second, do some good. -Anne M. Lipton, M.D., Ph.D. — Anne M. Lipton

Nor bring, to see me cease to live,
Some doctor full of phrase and fame,
To shake his sapient head, and give
The ill he cannot cure a name. — Matthew Arnold

The best doctor gives the least medicines. — Benjamin Franklin

Medicine no doubt, has helped us a lot to cure so many diseases, but death still remains an incurable one! — Mehek Bassi

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

I knew at university that medicine was just not for me. I saved many lives by not being a doctor! — Zubin Mehta

What life she had left could be measured in hours. Small recompense though they were, they belonged to me now. I had only to claim them. — Kim Van Alkemade

What is the difference between a Doctor of Medicine and a Doctor of Theology? One prescribes drugs, while the other might as well be on drugs. — Pat Condell

Doubt is an old disease.
Faith is an old medicine.
Compassion is an old doctor.
Concern is an old nurse. — Sri Chinmoy

There is no such thing as an infallible doctor. — Edward E. Rosenbaum

The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man. — Shana Alexander

Printer's ink, when it spells out a doctor's promise to cure, is one of the subtlest and most dangerous of poisons. — Samuel Hopkins Adams

Above all else, above the mechanics, even, a doctor should be thoroughly grounded in morality. — M.R. Graham

I was sure I was going to be a doctor of global health or tropical medicine in some underdeveloped country. — Thomas R. Insel

You cannot separate passion from pathology any more than you can separate a person's spirit from his body. — Richard Selzer

I think of the Dalai Lama as a doctor of the mind offering medicine and specific counsel and cures in the way a great doctor would. — Pico Iyer

I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation. — Ernest Hemingway,

Failing to listen to the woman is one of the biggest mistakes a practitioner can make. — Helen Varney

In the words of the philosopher Sceptum, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for this? — Terry Pratchett