Flannery O'Connor Quotes

Keep away from physicians. It is all probing and guessing and pretending with them. They leave it to Nature to cure in her own time, but they take the credit. As well as very fat fees.

I love doctors and hate their medicine.

There is among doctors, in acute hospitals at least, a presumption of stupidity in their patients.

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

We can't socialize the doctors without socializing the patients.

The doctor knows that it is the prescription slip itself, even more than what is written on it, that is often the vital ingredient for enabling a patient to get rid of whatever is ailing him.

Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.

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.

The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.

Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.

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.

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

I think people need to be comfortable questioning the authority of a doctor.

I'll trust an attorney before I'll trust a doctor.

if I’d been hit with the same thing as Glenn, I probably had his doctor. The thought seemed about right when Glenn shrank back in his chair with a guilty expression. The tomato, too, was in hiding somewhere. I didn’t want to know where. I truly didn’t.

Do Roman paramedics refer to IV’s as '4's'?

Doctors couldn't be everywhere, so the Lord invented Vulcans. I thought you knew.

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

Good doctors get a mechanic's pleasure in making you tick over.

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.

Its always been my tendency to lie to doctors, as if good health consisted only of the ability to fool them.

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

Doctors are mostly impostors. The older a doctor is and the more venerated he is, the more he must pretend to know everything. Of course, they grow worse with time. Always look for a doctor who is hated by the best doctors. Always seek out a bright young doctor before he comes down with nonsense.

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