Lord Byron Quotes

I love doctors and hate their medicine.

I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.

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.

Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the earliest records of every culture on earth. It is hard to think of a more dependable or enduring occupation, harder still to imagine any future events leading to its extinction.

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

The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.

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.

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.

There is one thing pleasantly unconfusing about medicine. The direction and the end are fixed and the patient never works backward.

The Doctor's Motto: Have patients.

Doctors always think anybody doing something they aren't is a quack; also they think all patients are idiots.

There is only one cardinal rule: One must always listen to the patient.

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

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

Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest, but that all seek the good of their patients? For we have agreed that a physician strictly so called, is a ruler of bodies, and not a maker of money, have we not?

I think people are by-and-large happy with the providers that they have got now. They treasure that doctor-patient relationship.

I wouldn't be here today if it were not for the NHS. I have received a large amount of high-quality treatment without which I would not have survived.

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

Hospitals are about healing.

The growing professional disciplines of medical ethics and bioethics have had a profound impact on researchers, bedside doctors, associations of physicians, and government.

My advice to the Sultan is to build hospitals for sick Muslims, with a staff of physicians and attendants who will cure them and minister to their needs

The hospital industry to this day works its tail off to do the right thing.

The medical genre is beloved, and there are so many great stories to be told - and that's why it's so popular.

Today, the practice of medicine in an urban, technological society rarely provides either the time or the environment to encourage a doctor-patient relationship that promotes healing.

Communication is everything, especially as a doctor, you need to communicate with your patients.