| Quote 89 | A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running. |
| Quote 4485 | Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey. |
| Quote 7607 | They certainly give very strange names to diseases. |
| Quote 7635 | You can die of the cure before you die of the illness. |
| Quote 7643 | You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten. |
| Quote 7697 | A pregnant woman facing the most dire circumstances must be able to count on her doctor to do what is medically necessary to protect her fro... |
| Quote 7819 | Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other. |
| Quote 7934 | When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother. |
| Quote 7940 | Doctors coin money when they do procedures but family medicine doesn't have any procedures. |
| Quote 7964 | The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity. |
| Quote 8089 | The doctors x-rayed my head and found nothing. |
| Quote 8245 | I've got to go. That's one of the penalties of being a doctor. I never seem to finish a conversation. |
| Quote 8282 | In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science. |
| Quote 8448 | Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it. |
| Quote 8498 | The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed. |
| Quote 8680 | I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso. |
| Quote 8687 | I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for. |
| Quote 8700 | The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find. |
| Quote 8701 | If you look at the human condition today, not everyone is well fed, has access to good medical care, or the physical basics that provide for... |
| Quote 8739 | As a physician, I know many doctors want to utilize new technology, but they find the cost prohibitive. |
| Quote 8908 | 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... |
| Quote 9285 | I was always shocked when I went to the doctor's office and they did my X-ray and didn't find that I had eight more ribs than I sh... |
| Quote 9543 | I went to the doctor and he said I had acute appendicitis, and I said compared to who? |
| Quote 9774 | I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor. |
| Quote 10219 | Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sic... |
| Quote 10354 | The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise. |
| Quote 10396 | America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in t... |
| Quote 10459 | Mammograms are really sort of a gift. You can either catch something early or count your lucky stars because nothing was discovered. Either ... |
| Quote 10493 | I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants. |
| Quote 10600 | When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays. |
| Quote 10801 | Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. |
| Quote 10974 | Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of i... |
| Quote 11021 | I'm by no means condemning prescription medicine for mental health. I've seen it save a lot of people's lives. |
| Quote 11252 | I'm 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down - at least he did until he dropped dead. |
| Quote 11541 | Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo. |
| Quote 11556 | I'm not feeling very well - I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course. |
| Quote 11676 | Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too. |
| Quote 11725 | Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals. |
| Quote 11763 | Honestly, being a doctor could make you more close minded than regular people. |
| Quote 11764 | It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing. |
| Quote 11885 | As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much e... |
| Quote 12156 | Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created. |
| Quote 12198 | A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing... |
| Quote 12281 | People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures. |
| Quote 12317 | When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much. |
| Quote 12369 | Flying back from New York, the flight attendant said 'God, I wished you were here yesterday, we had a stroke on the plane. I said, if I... |
| Quote 12802 | My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more. |
| Quote 12878 | Medical liability reform is not a Republican or Democrat issue or even a doctor versus lawyer issue. It is a patient issue. |
| Quote 13228 | One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. |
| Quote 13376 | 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 ... |
| Quote 13906 | Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more pe... |
| Quote 13922 | In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival. |