Doctor's Duty Quotes

Whether it's possible or not, being a doctor, you take an oath. To care for your patient, not to kill them. You take an oath to do things that are proper in the medical world. Not to administer something outside of a hospital setting that's not even your area.

I am a doctor - it's a profession that may be considered a special mission, a devotion. It calls for involvement, respect and willingness to help all other people.

I trust I may be enabled in the treatment of patients always to act with a single eye to their good.

I think we have to do everything that's useful. We're doctors. Our job is to tell the truth. And it doesn't have to be embellished in any way.

I'm a physician first and foremost. I will always be a physician.

No doctor is going to do an abortion on a live fetus. That doesn't happen. Doctors don't do that. If they do, they'll get their license pulled, as well they should.

I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.

As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.

No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.

It is the duty of the doctor to prolong life. It is not his duty to prolong dying.

It is a moral achievement on the part of the doctor who ought not to let himself be repelled by sickness and corruption.

A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession.

Doctors have an ethical duty to follow the practices and standards of care.

We are trained to be medical doctors first and if you have to put neurosurgery aside to deal with the most vulnerable and susceptible patients, then that's what we'll do.

I'm opposed to anybody getting between me and the patient.

When I took the Hippocratic oath and was effectively 'sworn in' as a doctor, I took the same vow that doctors have taken for generations. Patient autonomy is core to this oath.