Richard Dawkins Quotes

In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Did you know that there was a study in 1961 that found that 90 percent of physicians wouldn't tell you if you were diagnosed with cancer?

When I opened my solo practice, I made it a priority to put my patients' experience first and foremost. This involves making them feel comfortable, both literally and figuratively.

I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.

As my mentor in Medical School, Dr William Strong taught me: Never wear a white coat; it separates you from a fellow human being. I never have from that day on. You are your patients guide, counselor, and defender, not their ruler and dictator.

I'm opposed to anybody getting between me and the patient.

I think we have to do everything that's useful. We're doctors. Our job is to tell the truth. And it doesn't have to be embellished in any way.

We are guests in our patients' lives.

It is not kindness to tell patients that need strong medicine that nothing serious is wrong with them.

I am a physician. I keep a drug-shop of lies. I give relief, consolation. Can one console and relieve without lying? ... Only women and doctors know how necessary and how helpful lies are to men.

This is where the strength of the physician lies, be he a quack, a homeopath or an allopath. He supplies the perennial demand for comfort, the craving for sympathy that every human sufferer feels.

If you actually are a doctor and admitted it, you'd say, 'I don't cure a huge percentage, I don't have a 50 percent cure rate ... but I can have a 100 percent compassion rate'.

It is hard to tell truth, and hard not to.

Let no one suppose that the words doctor and patient can disguise from the parties the fact that they are employer and employee.

Sometimes it’s more noble to tell a small lie than to deliver a painful truth.

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.

My aim in helping the patient was not to cause death. My aim was to end suffering. It's got to be decriminalized.

This is a precious possession which we cannot afford to tarnish, but society always is attempting to make the physician into a killer to kill the defective child at birth, to leave the sleeping pills beside the bed of the cancer patient ... It is the duty of society to protect the physicians from such requests.

The Doctor's Motto: Have patients.

What should be the glory of the profession is that a doctor should be able to meet his patients with no financial anxiety.

This is an absurd moral, for you and I both know that sometimes not only is it good to lie, it is necessary to lie.

Alanna didn't approve of lying, but in a pinch a lie was sometimes better than the truth.

The physician, to the extent he is a physician, considers only the good of the patient in what he prescribes, and his own not at all

But we have gone so far in the direction of over treating terminal patients that we've failed to recognize when we're doing more harm than good.

A man goes to a psychiatrist. "Nobody listens to me!" The doctor says, "Next!"