John Mortimer Quotes

I continue to be a strong believer in the life-saving importance of early detection, and I encourage everyone to be proactive about their preventive screenings.

I like going to the doctor, being vigilant, being told that I'm healthy so I can push myself.

It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form.

A standard 'well woman' checkup can last as little as 10 minutes, hardly time for any in-depth discussions.

People need to pay attention to their bodies and go get a checkup. If you do that, you have a chance to help illnesses from getting even worse.

As a woman, you need to take control of your health. There's no harm in going in and getting checked out. Eventually, you have to ask yourself: 'Do I want to live at 100% or 80%?'

Even though you don't feel anything, you need to get an annual check-up.

If I ran to a doctor every time I got a little cyst or abrasion, I'd still be in Nova Scotia.

I've been really diligent about going and getting screenings and mammograms, and so when I got the scare I said, 'Thank God that I went!' You can't blow it off. It's very important.

Both times I had cancer? Preventative medicine. Caught 'em both early. I'll take physicals anytime I can get one.

I hate knowing about illness. Whenever I read a medical book, I immediately start to get all the symptoms.

People should be afraid of the cancer, not the mammogram.

I’m a hypochondriac. Before I go all the way, I send the girl to the doctor and check them for everything. My doctor has a test to tell if you’re going to catch something in the future even.

It is said to be the manner of hypochondriacs to change often their physician.

I am a sick man...I am a wicked man. An unattractive man. I think my liver hurts. However, i don't know a fig about my sickness, and am not sure what it is that hurts me. I am not being treated and never have been, though I respect medicine. What's more, I am also superstitious in the extreme; well, at least enough to respect medicine.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. So the only thing to really be afraid of is if you don't go get your mammograms.

Some mistakes... Just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you. You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.

I think hypochondria always plays a part in the healthcare landscape.

You're saying the gods don't have free will." "The power to make mistakes," Penny said. "Only we have that. Mortals

A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him.

I am one with the Power that created me. I am totally open and receptive to the abundant flow of prosperity that the Universe offers. All my needs and desires are met before I even ask. I am Divinely guided and protected, and I make choices that are beneficial for me. I rejoice in other's successes, knowing there is plenty for us all.

Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

If I had the choice of knowing the truth or searching for the truth, I'd take the search.

The healthy know not of their health, but only the sick: this is the physician's aphorism, and applicable in a far wider sense than he gives it.

We don't want to be afraid to make a choice because we're afraid to make a mistake because most decisions aren't final. Feelings change all the time. You can always change your mind and taking risks and making choices is what makes life so exciting because we never know what's going to happen. Every day something new comes our way.