At the age of 16, something happened with my finger and the doctor told me, you never can be a organist or pianist, so think about what you do with music.
The best doctors and medicine in the world can't save you if you don't do what you're supposed to do.
Well, after I had the heart attack, it was a very simple choice. What the doctor told me I did and I did it religiously. I ate nothing but lean turkey breast or chicken breast or a piece of fish that was very lean. I mean I stayed away from everything.
Every year my boss used to give me a bottle of expensive brandy because I'd told him that my doctor suggested a drink once in a while. This year my boss gave me the name of a new doctor.
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
The morning after I had my heart bypass, the doctor called and said, Soon you'll be able to have sex. I said, I've heard that for years.
I have to be the only person in America who had a doctor say to him, 'Please don't put any more surgical gloves on your head and inflate them.'
Following his doctor's orders, Nikita (Khrushchev) has cut his drinking in half. He's leaving out the water.
I blew my voice out and the doctor said, don't even talk for a week.
When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.
We readily go to the health club when our doctor suggests we need more exercise, but we regularly neglect the 'mental health club' that our well-being more truly requires.
My doctor said, for want of a better word, now that we've got medicines out here that can help, let's put you on one of them and say we're treating MS.
I used to drink a bottle of vodka a day, every day, for about 40 years and it never occurred to me it'd kill me. If I'd have continued it might have killed me. My doctor said I should stick to wine.
My doctor told me I should get out of breath three times a week, so I took up smoking.
My doctor explained that exercise and diet changes might help and that I also might need a medication.
Howie's doctor told him to lose ten pounds, and since Howie's been on a diet he's gained three.
I would encourage all women to get mammograms when their doctors tell them to.
Doctors say it's okay to have sex after a heart attack, provided you close the ambulance door.
Of course, I should have done what doctors said and walked for miles every day and not eaten great amounts of butter. But then, life is life, and if we all did what they said we should do, it would be a different world.
I remember talking to Magic the day I announced I had HIV. He was preaching, 'Do what your doctor tells you.' Well, I didn't have a doctor then, so I got down on my knees, and I prayed.
I hurt my knee, and that messed up my running, and boy did that ever just have a cascade effect. I've gained about thirty pounds that my doctors have screamed at me about. I've got to get that off, and I know that.
After I had gone through this matter with the President I told him of my condition of health and that my doctors felt that I must take a complete rest and that I thought that that meant leaving the Department finally in a short time.
When did a doctor prescribe, not sleeping pills, but sleep itself? It needs to be prioritised, even incentivised.
My doctors told me this morning my blood pressure is down so low that I can start reading the newspapers.
I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
