Quotes about Doctors
A new report says ISIS is trying to recruit professionals like doctors, engineers, and accountants. Sorry, kids, even ISIS says they're not hiring liberal arts majors.
— Conan O'Brien
The selflessness and dedication shown by many Greek doctors can be seen not only in such works as the Epidemics, but also in, for example, Thucydides' account of the plague at Athens (II, 47ff.) — where he notes the high incidence of mortality from the disease among the doctors who attempted to treat it.
— Hippocrates
I am ready to defend my convictions even unto death. I have followed the Sacred Scriptures and the holy doctors.
— John Wycliffe
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
Listen Sut. We're painted into a corner anyways. I mean what if we was to just call up and say he died? I mean hell fire, you caint fool them guys. Them guys is doctors. They take one look at him and know for a fact he's been dead six months. How does it smell in there? It smells fuckin awful.
— Cormac McCarthy
It isn't God's job to make sick people healthy. That's the doctors' job. God's job is to make sick people brave, and in my experience, that's something God does really well. Prayer, as I understand it, is not a matter of begging or bargaining. It is the act of inviting God into our lives so that, with God's help, we will be strong enough to resist temptation and resilient enough not to be destroyed by life's unfairness.
— Harold S. Kushner
Doctors explain that the cardiac cells are "auto-rhythmic" cells. They actually vibrate and beat together instinctively at the same tempo—before they ever unite with each other and function as the heart!
— Bishop TD Jakes
After all, a person has only two hands, and these days there're too many patients and too few doctors.
— Anne Frank
Back in Hollywood Hospital, there were no scrubs. The doctors were very well dressed, and the patients were in pajamas. The doctor in charge of the whole place wore baby-blue alligator shoes, drove a light blue '59 Cadillac convertible, and wore what I was sure was the button to end the world as a tie clip.
— Mark Vonnegut
More doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette.
— Anonymous
The exercise of prayer in those who habitually exert it must be regarded by us doctors as the most adequate and normal of all the pacifiers of the mind and calmers of the nerves.
— William James
I was a fugitive, taking risks with my life. I chose that. I chose to be a volunteer to go to Guatemala when they were having their earthquake, to help people with a team of doctors.
— Abbie Hoffman