George Eliot Quotes

I really like my doctors. Some of them I love. I trust them.

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

When I opened my solo practice, I made it a priority to put my patients' experience first and foremost. This involves making them feel comfortable, both literally and figuratively.

People used to trust their doctor. They went to an expert. Now people have new ideas and are thinking for themselves. That's a very important change in our collective psychology.

A lot of times I talk to people, they say they don't trust the doctors, they don't trust the hospitals and that kind of stuff. Well, if you go to the hospital, you've got to trust somebody.

You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.

The Doctor's Motto: Have patients.

I was not at all worried about finding my doctor boring; I expected from him, thanks to an art of which the laws escaped me, that he pronounce concerning my health an indisputable oracle by consulting my entrails.

What we have now is doctors who are actually better technically at what they're doing in their specialty than 30 or 40 years ago, but we lost the relationship, when the doctor would look people in the eye and say, 'I care about you. We can do this together.'

I am lucky: I have fantastic doctors and a fantastic dentist.

I love the opportunity to help my patients, to work with them to find the best course of action to get them healthy and to give them the information they need to stay healthy.

How can we keep people healthy, and if they get sick, how can we treat them right the first time?

It is fundamental when you are a doctor for a good doctor-patient relationship.

I'll trust an attorney before I'll trust a doctor.

PHYSICIAN, n. One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.

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'.

We can't socialize the doctors without socializing the patients.

Good doctors get a mechanic's pleasure in making you tick over.

The doctor is not a miracle worker who can magically save us but, rather, an expert adviser who can assist us in our own recovery.

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.

A doctor who doesn't say too many foolish things is a patient half-cured.

What do I want in a doctor? Perhaps more than anything else-a friend with special knowledge.

Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires. Let us trust his skill and thank him for his prescription.

The physician...is the flower (such as it is) of our civilization.