1,141 Quotes About Doctors

  • Author Grete Waitz
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    I am living in Norway, where I am under the care of the best cancer doctor in Norway and I can be closer to my family.

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  • Author Isabel Wilkerson
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    Anything that could be conceived of that would separate black people from white people was devised and codified by someone in some state in the South. There were colored and White waiting rooms everywhere, from doctor's offices to the bus stations, as people may already know.

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  • Author Isabel Wilkerson
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    There were colored and white waiting rooms everywhere, from doctor's offices to the bus stations, as people may already know. But there were actually colored windows at the post office in, for example, Pensacola, Florida. And there were white and colored telephone booths in Oklahoma. And there were separate windows where white people and black people would go to get their license plates in Indianola, Mississippi. And there were even separate tellers to make your deposits at the First National Bank in Atlanta.

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  • Author Jane Wagner
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    You don't know what it's like! Hyperactive twins! When they turned three, my doctor prescribed Ritalin -- I wouldn't dream of giving a drug to my children, but it does help when I take it myself.

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  • Author John Wieland
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    There is something amiss when that many doctors suddenly say, 'We're quitting your panel,'

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  • Author Kara Walker
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    There's no diploma in the world that declares you as an artist—it's not like becoming a doctor. You can declare yourself an artist and then figure out how to be an artist.

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  • Author Lauren Worsham
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    I only worked theater jobs, but they were all really silly when I first graduated. I was a line monitor at 'Spamalot,' which means I got there at 8 A.M. and told people how much the tickets were for standing room. I was an NYU Medical School fake patient, to teach doctors how to talk to patients.

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