Thornton Wilder Quotes

I don't trust doctors. It's not to say there ain't some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn't trust 'em at all.

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.

I'm happier writing about doctors than I would have been being one.

Fifty percent of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class - Hope your surgery went well!

Faste knew better than to argue with a doctor, since they were the closest things to God's representatives here on Earth.

I was a heart surgeon before I came to Congress, and I've worked many holidays on behalf of my patients.

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

I don't know if there is some psychological thing of wanting to know where your doctor got his degree from before he comes into the medical room.

I love doctors and hate their medicine.

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'.

Who ever saw a doctor use the prescription of his colleague without cutting out or adding something?

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

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 hate doctors! They'll do anything... to keep you coming to them. They'll sell their souls. What's worse, they'll sell yours, and you never know it till one day you find yourself in hell.

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.

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

If you are that person, you are more likely to believe that God cured you, this invisible force, creator of the universe, cured you, than that you had three idiotic doctors diagnose you. ... I taught physics to pre-med students who became doctors. Not all of them are smart, I assure you.

The American doctor possesses a combination of conservatism and... an eagerness to know what it is really all about, in order that he may not be the one left behind if there is something to it.

In my experience, if you go to a hospital for any reason whatsoever, including to read the gas meter, they give you a tetanus shot.

The real trouble with the doctor image in America is that it has been grayed by the image of the doctor-as-businessman, the doctor-as-bureaucrat, the doctor-as-medical-robot, and the doctor-as-terrified-victim-of-malpractice-suits.

There are only two sorts of doctors; those who practise with their brains, and those who practise with their tongues.

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

As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination.

It's a poor doctor who can't cure one disease without giving you another.