Sylvia Day Quotes

Doctor doctor, what do you say, lets put the id back in yid

If people really knew what they were getting into with their third chemotherapy treatment, or getting a pacemaker when they're 92, if they really knew what that was going to mean, they might say no, and we should give them that information.

I really like my doctors. Some of them I love. I trust them.

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

You must be born for your physician, otherwise you are bound to perish because of your physician.

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

And then they sign an affidavit swearing that she's not in a vegetative stage. I'll tell you. That's a doctor you really want; they can look at a picture and make a diagnosis.

No health care provider may be penalized for discussing medically necessary or appropriate care with or on behalf of his or her patient.

The paternalism of the medical industry is insane.

As soon as a disease is diagnosed, we still need someone to deliver the care.

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

Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously, as an imperative to do everything for the patient regardless of the cost or effects on others

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.

Bren MacGuff: Well, honey, doctors are sadists who like to play God and watch lesser people scream.

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.

Doctors always think anybody doing something they aren't is a quack; also they think all patients are idiots.

The physician...is the flower (such as it is) of our civilization.

I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrongdoing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly, I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art.

If you don't feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace.

My doctor is a family physician. He treats my family and I support his.

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

God bless the physician who warms the speculum or holds your hand and looks into your eyes. Perhaps one subtext of the health caredebate is a yen to be treated like a whole person, not just an eye, an ear, a nose or a throat. A yen to be human again, on the part of patient and doctor alike.

A physician who treats himself has a fool for a patient.