The Doctor's Motto: Have patients.
When men die of disease they are said to die from natural causes. When they recover (and mostly they do) the doctor gets the credit of curing them.
However, most of my part, I play a pediatrician, and most of my role had to do with being in another place, staying at the hospital and trying to save kids and stay until people could come. So, it was more based on reality.
Doctors are busy playing God when so few of us have the qualifications. And besides, the job is taken.
I tell [medical students] that they are the luckiest persons on earth to be in medical school, and to forget all this worry about H.M.O.'s and keep your eye on helping the patient. It's the best time ever to be a doctor because you can heal and treat conditions that were untreatable even a couple of years ago.
It is not much trouble to doctor sick folks, but to doctor healthy ones is troublesome.
You must be born for your physician, otherwise you are bound to perish because of your physician.
America enjoys the best health care in the world, but the best is no good if folks can't afford it, access it and doctor's can't provide it.
As a doctor, I've learned the importance and value of listening.
God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.
It's the best time ever to be a doctor because you can heal and treat conditions that were untreatable even a few years ago.
It should not be an act of social disobedience to light a cigarette. Unless you're actually a doctor working at an incubator.
I knew at university that medicine was just not for me. I saved many lives by not being a doctor!
God cures and the doctor sends the bill.
It's supposed to be a secret, but I'll tell you anyway. We doctors do nothing. We only help. And encourage the doctor within.
A well-trained, sensible doctor is one of the most valuable assets of a community.
It is frightening how dependent on drugs we are all becoming and how easy it is for doctors to prescribe them as the universal panacea for our ills.
I am a medium. In the same way, doctors are mediums to bring treatment.
To find health should be the object of the doctor. Any one can find disease.
Very few [doctors] are men of science in any very serious sense; they're men of technique.
I have always believed that the decision to have an abortion generally should be between a woman, her doctor, her conscience, and her God.
If I were a doctor nobody would be inviting me to talk to reservations. I'd be a different person. Writers can influence more people.
I always knew I wanted to be a doctor, but I also knew that being a doctor meant more than treating just the patient in front of you.
I have thought about this issue of abortion time and again. It is not an easy issue for most people. I came to believe over the years that a woman should be able to make this agonizing decision with her doctor and her family and her conscience, and that we should be very careful that we don't make that decision a crime except in the most extreme circumstances.
A pregnant woman facing the most dire circumstances must be able to count on her doctor to do what is medically necessary to protect her from serious physical harm.
