Bernie Siegel Quotes

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

The Doctor's Motto: Have patients.

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.

It's supposed to be a secret, but I'll tell you anyway. We doctors do nothing. We only help. And encourage the doctor within.

I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.

My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor for making money off of cancer?

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.

I'm a physician first and foremost. I will always be a physician.

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

… we are merely the servants of the public, in spite of our M.d. ’s and our hospital appointments

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

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.

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.

Without question, the notion of the doctor as a legitimate fee-for-service entrepreneur, making his fortune from misfortunes of his patients, is old-fashioned, distasteful, and doomed.

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

I think being a doctor is really hard, and it's really this thankless, never-ending job. It's not even that you get done with a project. There are always sick people.

If I could be a doctor and save lives I would, but I can't so I sing songs.

Doctors have been exposed-you always will be exposed-to the attacks of those persons who consider their own undisciplined emotions more important than the world's most bitter agonies-the people who would limit and cripple and hamper research because they fear research may be accompanied by a little pain and suffering.

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

Doctors and nurses do crazy hours and keep an ideal afloat through the love and care that they have for their craft and their patients and the institution of the NHS. We should be very proud of it.

There are over 30 doctors running for the US Congress this year. That's going to be rather strange. Half the time these folks will be playing God and asking women to take their clothes off and the other half the time they will be doctors.

Very few [doctors] are men of science in any very serious sense; they're men of technique.

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

I'm a medical doctor by training. I'm a physician, not a politician. And I'm in this as a mother on fire.