Rachel Caine Quotes

My doctor grabbed me by the wallet and said,'Cough'

Well, Doctor, I don't have the diagnosis on that. I'll be sure to do a physical checkup and get back to you.

I love to go to the doctor. Where else would a man look at me and say, 'Take off your clothes'?

Doctor, feel my purse.

I'm going to Boston to see my doctor. He's a very sick man.

I finally had my prostate checked. And I was super-thankful that I taught my asshole to whistle before the doctor stuck his finger in there. The look on his face was priceless.

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

I've been poked and prodded in places I'd always prided myself on keeping untouched for that one special doctor who gives me a ring and a promise someday.

A doctor has a stethoscope up to a man's chest. The man asks, "Doc, how do I stand?" The doctor says, "That's what puzzles me!"

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

Doctors put a wall up between themselves and their patients; nurses broke it down.

Before going on a diet you should consult your doctor, or at least send him some money.

Most people assume that physician language is akin to technical, non-understandable jargon. It does not have to be that way. Doctors do not perform witchcraft. They simply interpret what they are told and what tests reveal. They diagnose and prescribe treatment. Our responsibility is to help doctors know what is going on in our bodies and to insist on clear, precise, understandable language in response.

The medicalization of early diagnosis not only hampers and discourages preventative health-care but it also trains the patient-to-be to function in the meantime as an acolyte to his doctor. He learns to depend on the physician in sickness and in health. He turns into a life-long patient.

The worst moment from all of this was driving from that doctor's office, to tell my wife that I was HIV positive.

Doctors are not servants of their patients, they are traders like everyone else in a free society and they should bear that title proudly considering the crucial importance of the services they offer.

I'm tired of being a nice guy, I've been poor all my life, but don't know quite why.

The general public is easy. You don't have to answer to anyone; and as long as you follow the rules of your profession, you needn't worry about the consequences. But the problem with the powerful and rich is that when they are sick, they really want their doctors to cure them.

The best doctors found a middle position where they were neither overwhelmed by their feelings nor estranged from them. That was the most difficult position of all, and the precise balance - neither too detached nor too caring - was something few learned.

The Obama administration has admitted that under Obamacare, you might not be able to keep your doctor. At first the president guaranteed you'd be able to keep your doctor, and now they're saying you 'might' be able to. Today Obama changed his slogan from 'Yes we can' to 'Perhaps we could try. Can't promise anything.'

Americans have the right to have their medical decisions made by them and their doctors, and not by those bureaucrats sitting behind a computer screen hundreds of miles away.

The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.

There is a great difference between a good physician and a bad one; yet very little between a good one and none at all.

As a matter of principle, we believe patients should be able to see the right doctor at the right time. As a matter of principle, we believe nothing should interfere with that doctor-patient relationship. As a matter of principle, we believe all Americans deserve affordable, available, and reliable quality health care.

Finally the homeless eel marked its territory, I suppose, and the Doctor lay heavily upon me, moist with sweat.