Doctors Quotes
Sad Quotes about Doctors

He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb

Isn't it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do "practice"?
- George Carlin

She's been diagnosed as a paranoid hypochondriac.
Doctors think she may be faking.
- the movie Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures.
- Martha Beck

Doctors coin money when they do procedures but family
medicine doesn't have any procedures.
- David Jones

I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated
in the bottom half of their classes.
- Al McGuire

As a physician, I know many doctors want to utilize new technology,
but they find the cost prohibitive.
- Nathan Deal

Doctors are just the same as lawyers;
the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you,
whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
- Anton Chekhov

I got the bill for my surgery.
Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.
- James H. Boren

The doctors x-rayed my head and found nothing.
- Dizzy Dean

Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions.
I had Barbie Goes Rambo.
- Zoe Saldana

If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome;
if you believe the theologians,
nothing is innocent; if you believe the military,
nothing is safe.
- Lord Salisbury

In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the
most exquisite form of torture ever known to man:
survival.
- Edward Everett Hale

The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives,
but still hidden from the public, is that most things
get better by themselves;
most things,
in fact, are better in the morning.
- Lewis Thomas

I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights.
Decisions ought to be made by doctors,
not accountants.
- Charles Schumer

All sorts of computer errors are now turning up.
You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who
claim they are treating pregnant men.
- Isaac Asimov

Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back in the shell.
- Cass Canfield

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next
world than even we generals.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

There are some people who're all doctors.
Is it genetic?
- Aida Turturro

Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference
is that lawyers merely rob you,
whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
- Anton Chekhov

When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease -
of joy that kills.
- Kate Chopin

I took anatomy classes.
I went to medical libraries and talked to doctors and nutritionists.
I did the whole thing before using myself as a human guinea pig.
- Marilu Henner

In all modesty, we must admit that governments are
not always the best doctors when it comes to diagnosing
economic ailments and prescribing the right treatment.
- Kim Campbell

I always made a point of telling the doctors I was sane,
and asking to be released, but the more I endeavored
to assure them of my sanity,
the more they doubted it.
- Nellie Bly

Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Oh there are lots of doctors and medical professionals
out there who buy my devices at whole sale price.
- Alex Chiu

I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.
- G. M. Trevelyan

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

There aren't more lady songwriters for the same reason
that there aren't more lady doctors or lady accountants or lady lawyers;
not enough women have the time for careers.
- Dorothy Fields

The athlete of today is not an athlete alone.
He's the center of a team - doctors,
scientists,
coaches, agents and so on.
- Emil Zatopek

Ethically, I think pretty much every code of ethics
for doctors suggests that they should not be in an interrogation room,
particularly if there's anything coercive or abusive going on.
- Jane Mayer

The general public thinks all little people are in circuses or sideshows.
We have doctors, nurses, just about every field covered.
- Billy Barty

It is a different genre - a show about something other than doctors,
lawyers and cops.
Teachers are something completely different.
I think it makes for very interesting television.
- Chi McBride

I have seen doctors, in good faith, leave patients on steroids for years,
thinking they are doing right.
A friend of mine was on steroids for so long,
she has severe osteoporosis.
- Mary Ann Mobley

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet,
Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
- Jonathan Swift

My bones are as hard as a rock.
Every time I have a biopsy, the doctors are doing hand exercises a week,
ten days out.
- Don Baylor

But I think doctors have always been either honest or dishonest.
- Leonard Baskin

I'd call it a new version of voodoo economics,
but I'm afraid that would give witch doctors a bad name.
- Geraldine Ferraro

The bottom line to this is, there are few doctors who
have any expertise in chemical exposure.
- Christopher Shays

Drugs are in every walk of life - doctors,
lawyers, preachers, the guy who works for IBM,
teenagers on the street, teenagers in school.
- Smokey Robinson

We have the greatest hospitals, doctors,
and medical technology in the world -
we need to make them accessible to every American.
- Barbara Boxer

Among doctors in general, I think more than half support what I'm doing.
- Jack Kevorkian

America has the best doctors, the best nurses,
the best hospitals, the best medical technology,
the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world.
There is absolutely no reason we should not have in
this country the best health care in the world.
- Bill Frist

There were symptoms that I saw, and though I went to
many doctors and had many tests,
no one diagnosed MS.
- Teri Garr

Doctors tell me I have the body of a thirty year old.
I know I have the brain of a fifteen year old.
If you've got both, you can play baseball.
- Pete Rose

In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the
most exquisite form of torture ever known to man:
survival.
- Luis Bunuel

I have been on diets that were supervised by doctors,
that were carefully supervised where I lost weight.
- Roberta Flack

Two young doctors - one from Harvard and the other from Dartmouth -
invited me to go to Mecca in my husband's stead.
And that is what helped put me back on track.
- Betty Shabazz

When a man lacks mental balance in pneumonia he is said to be delirious.
When he lacks mental balance without the pneumonia,
he is pronounced insane by all smart doctors.
- Martin H. Fischer

There's a new medical crisis.
Doctors are reporting that many men are having allergic
reactions to latex condoms.
They say they cause severe swelling.
So what's the problem?
- Phyllis Diller

America's doctors, nurses and medical researchers are the best in the world,
but our health care system is broken.
- Mike Ferguson

Three of my children are medical doctors,
they know at least a hundred times as much about your
body as my grandfather knew,
but they don't know much more about soul than he did.
- John Templeton

In this case they're doctors.
But having passion for your work and to take risks
in order to better human kind.
That's a pretty big theme.
It's pretty inspiring.
- Mary Stuart Masterson

The best doctors and the best hospitals in America,
if they cannot get the patient information they need when they need it,
it can lead to morbid consequences: Higher mortality.
- Timothy Murphy

Team doctors' jobs those days were to keep you on the field.
- Merlin Olsen

I'm a terrible patient, and I find that doctors can be very condescending.
- Sherry Stringfield

The south produced statesmen and soldiers,
planters and doctors and lawyers and poets,
but certainly no engineers and mechanics.
Let Yankees adopt such low callings.
- Margaret Mitchell

On December 17, 1984, I had surgery to remove two inches
of my left lung due to pneumonia.
After two hours of surgery the doctors told my mother I had AIDS.
- Ryan White

The German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony
have one sense more than others.
- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

If they take their children to doctors,
they believe they are putting their faith in man instead of in God.
- Bob Bartlett

I've been told by doctors and surgeons that I have
the energy of ten men who have normal jobs.
- Gary Busey

The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty -
not marble floors and foundations.
- Martin H. Fischer

Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?
- Aeschylus

Have a hand in your own treatment.
I have nothing but praise for our doctors,
but I think they could help us better,
and we can help them if we work together.
- Mary Ann Mobley

Both my parents were doctors, and my mother had her surgery in the house.
There were six children.
- Diane Cilento

I found collaborating with congenial doctors about
problems that physicists could help solve was very satisfying.
I also like educating anybody who would listen!
- John Cameron

The only difference between doctors and lawyers is
that lawyers merely rob you,
whereas doctors rob you and kill you,
too.
- Anton Chekhov

When Medicare was created for senior citizens and America 's disabled in 1965,
about half of a senior's health care spending was on
doctors and the other half on hospitals.
- Dennis Hastert

You know, in playing a role like this,
you really want to get it right, because this is a
person who was revered by so many doctors,
women doctors especially.
- Mary Stuart Masterson

Medical physicists work in cooperation with doctors.
A few medical physicists devote their time to research and teaching.
A few get involved with administrative duties.
- John Cameron

The New England Journal of Medicine reports that 9
out of 10 doctors agree that 1 out of 10 doctors is an idiot.
- Jay Leno