Nancy Reagan Quotes

I had a cancer scare in the early '90s, and for a few months, I wondered if I would make it.

We approach people the same way we approach our cars. We take the poor kid to a doctor and ask, What's wrong with him, how much will it cost, and when can I pick him up?

Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.

It's so important to have a great relationship with your physician. It's one of those essential relationships that I find to be as important to nurture as any other relationship in your life. Without your health, you have nothing.

My vantage point on the world is the operating room where I see my patients.

I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.

Vets do what doctors used to - diagnose the injury or the condition, patch it up as best they can and remind you that these things happen and that in life we are also in the midst of death.

Hospitals are about healing.

A hospital is a good place to set various dilemmas.

The patient is in intensive care but still alive.

Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.

We have a lot of great hospitals in America, across the country.

If we become ill, modern medicine can work healing miracles.

There is an enormous amount of options that a physician can provide today, right down from curing patients, treating patients, or providing patients with psychic solace or pain relief. So, in fact, the gamut of medical intervention is enormous.

Part of my life is saving life.

My dad was a surgeon in Egypt. He was a general surgeon. As a little boy I always admired what he was doing, and I wanted to do surgery.

I love the Discovery Channel. I love all sorts of medical shows.

My job as a physician is to make sure I have provided my patients with the best options to make the decisions that affect their lives.

The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.

It started last year, during the summer. I went to the doctor and they found out it was kidney stones, so they had surgery done to help get those out and to pass them... More just kept coming in. So I had all together before the last show... I had like five surgeries.

Studios are like hospitals. A lot of people check in, and they don't check out.

Serious is when they tell you, 'You've got cancer.' Cancer is serious, but then the rest of it is not.

There are some remedies worse than the disease.

The state of my poor boy's health prevents me from leaving home for a night.

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.