1,141 Quotes About Doctors

Doctors; all they do is make you worse and take all your money. That's a general statement.

Acknowledging the important role of the emotions in health and illness, medicine must reexamine its concepts of disease causation.

It doesn't do for people, especially doctors, to go about 'thinking' things. They may get into frightful trouble.

One American in seven has no coverage, and one in three younger than sixty-five will lose coverage at some point in the next two years. These are people who aren't poor or old enough to qualify for government programs but whose jobs aren't good enough to provide benefits either.

Like most doctors, the fanciest ones, he seemed offensively healthy, as if he kept the real secret of vitality to himself. He would live forever and people would crumble and die around him. You were supposed to feel like death after seeing him, in terms of your complexion, your posture, your whole body. If necessary, this doctor would eat you to survive.

A feeble body makes a feeble mind. I do not know what doctors cure us of, but I know this: they infect us with very deadly diseases, cowardice, timidity, credulity, the fear of death. What matter if they make the dead walk, we have no need of corpses; they fail to give us men, and it is men we need.

I am in a profession that has succeeded because of its ability to fix. If your problem is fixable, we know just what to do. But if it’s not? The fact that we have had no adequate answers to this question is troubling and has caused callousness, inhumanity, and extraordinary suffering.

Most doctors are prisoners of their education and shackled by their profession.

Why is it that the U.S. government doesn't reward public servants by allowing them to live tax-free?