Anthony Trollope Quotes

As a doctor, I've learned the importance and value of listening.

Do you think that was kind? Do you think it was godlike? What would you think of a physician, if a woman came to him distressed and said, "Doctor, come to my daughter, she is very ill. She has lost her reason, and she is all I have!" What would you think of the doctor who would not reply at all at first, and then, when she fell at his feet and worshiped him, answered that he did not spend his time doctoring dogs? Would you like him as a family physician?

I always knew I wanted to be a doctor, but I also knew that being a doctor meant more than treating just the patient in front of you.

A doctor does not ask about political views and opinions - that is how I understand my role.

We sometimes think that the best doctors are the ones who have the most specialized knowledge or the fanciest degrees, but in fact, study upon study, including one published in the 'New England Journal of Medicine,' show that the best doctors are the ones who also know how to connect with their patients.

Communication is everything, especially as a doctor, you need to communicate with your patients.

I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.

I grew up with a real appreciation about just how wonderful and intimate the relationship is between a doctor and a patient was and the sense that this was a noble profession.

The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.

I think if I had done anything else I would like to have been a doctor. This is the sort of polar opposition to being a writer, I suppose.

Doctor." Gideon set one ankle on the opposite knee and settled back, creating a picture of unyielding decisiveness. "The only way I'm keeping my hands off her is if I'm dead. Find another way to fix us." Chapter 3 pg 50

You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.

There is only one cardinal rule: One must always listen to the patient.

It is a moral achievement on the part of the doctor who ought not to let himself be repelled by sickness and corruption.

Just using a checklist requires [doctors] to embrace different values from ones we've had, like humility, discipline, teamwork.

Physicians mend or end us, Secundum artem; but although we sneer - In health - when ill we call them to attend us, Without the least propensity to jeer

The surgical nurses were right. Theo Buchanan was gorgeous.. and sexy as hell. But none of that should matter. She was his physician, nothing more, noting less.. His hair was sticking up and he needed a shave, but he was still sexy. There wasn't anything wrong with her noticing that.. unless, of course, he noticed her noticing.

There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.

A doctor’s door should never be closed, a priest's door should always be open.

Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest, but that all seek the good of their patients? For we have agreed that a physician strictly so called, is a ruler of bodies, and not a maker of money, have we not?

The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.

Every physician must be rich in knowledge, and not only of that which is written in books; his patients should be his book, they will never mislead him.

A disorderly patient makes the physician cruel.

Care more for the individual patient than for the special features of the disease. . . . Put yourself in his place . . . The kindly word, the cheerful greeting, the sympathetic look - these the patient understands.

A surgeon would never hesitate to amputate a rotting hand, no matter how faithfully it had served its owner in the past.