1,141 Quotes About Doctors

  • Author Feist
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    If you calculate every single thing you could possibly need in your life, you would need no more than 200 people to keep all that afloat: a doctor, food, wine, cheese-eating friends, the person who makes paper, the shoemaker...

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  • Author Gayle Forman
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    There’s a piece of lead where my heart should beat Doctor said too dangerous to take out You’d better just leave it be Body grew back around it, a miracle, praise be Now, if only I could get through airport security “bullet

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  • Author Gillian Flynn
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    For those who need a name, there's a gift basket of medical terms. All I know is cutting made me feel safe. It was proof. Thoughts and words, captured where I could see them and track them. The truth, stinging, on my skin, in a freakish shorthand. Tell me you're going to the doctor, and I'll want to cut worrisome on my arm. Say you've fallen in love and I buzz the outlines of tragic over my breast. I hadn't necessarily wanted to be cured.

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  • Author Jimmy Fallon
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    One of the candidates at the early GOP debate, George Pataki, said his routine before every debate is to drink a diet lemon Snapple iced tea and pray. Which is also the advice Chris Christie gets from his doctor.

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  • Author Joe Ferry
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    There's no getting around having to say the honest statement, that from everything we know or from everything the doctors know, this person will die. That (still) allows for the eternal optimism of hope and a miracle.

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  • Author Jonathan Safran Foer
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    For a long time, I thought I would like to be a doctor. Such a good profession. So explicitly good. Never a waste of time.

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