Rudyard Kipling Quotes

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

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

Few things a doctor does are more important than relieving pain. . . pain is soul destroying. No patient should have to endure intense pain unnecessarily. The quality of mercy is essential to the practice of medicine; here, of all places, it should not be strained.

When I was little, I wanted to be a doctor. I was really interested in gore. My grandfather was an orthopedic surgeon and he had a lot of books in his library that I would just pore over. A lot of them had really horrible pictures of deformities.

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?

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

Good physicians are rarely dispassionate. They agonize and self-doubt over patients.

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

The community at large is under definite obligations to see to it that physicians and scientific men are not needlessly hampered in carrying on the inquiries necessary for an adequate performance of their important social office of sustaining human life and vigor.

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

I tell [medical students] that they are the luckiest persons on earth to be in medical school, and to forget all this worry about H.M.O.'s and keep your eye on helping the patient. It's the best time ever to be a doctor because you can heal and treat conditions that were untreatable even a couple of years ago.

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.

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.

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.

Vague promises of savings from cutting waste, enhancing prevention and wellness, installing electronic medical records and improving quality are merely ‘lipstick’ cost control, more for show and public relations than for true change... Savings will require changing how doctors think about their patients: Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously, “as an imperative to do everything for the patient regardless of the cost or effects on others.

The depersonalizati on of diagnosis and therapy has changed malpractice from an ethical into a technical problem.

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

Why should anyone - the state, the medical profession, or anyone else - presume to tell someone else how much suffering they must endure as their life is ending?

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.

I grew up caring about people and I would say again, that's what made me who I am. I became a doctor for what I like to call "healthy reasons." Not because I'm fascinated by the human body or want to understand death, but I like people and I want to help them. That also became my problem, because I couldn't help everyone, I couldn't fix everyone.

Doctors are busy playing God when so few of us have the qualifications. And besides, the job is taken.