Medical Advice Quotes

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it.

The patient says, "Doctor, it hurts when I do this." "Then don't do that!"

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

The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants.

Tell your friends to get their hearts checked.

"Doctor, my leg hurts. What can I do?" The doctor says, "Limp!"

The doctors are always changing their opinions. They always have some new fad.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

Real Texans don't want any woman to die of cancer because she can't get decent health care or medical advice. Real Texans don't want any woman to lose control of her life because she can't get birth control.

I'm a vegetarian, but now, on my doctor's orders, I have begun eating egg white.

What happened was that the doctor told me that I'd ruptured my kidney from being too busy and being stressed out and not eating right.

I've outlived all my diet doctors.

If you go to a big city anywhere in the world and you need a doctor, just ask me. I can tell you who's good and who's bad. I've even considered writing a guidebook.

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.

To me the analogy [to climate change] is... doctors worry a lot about cholesterol. And if you go to the doctor, and the doctor says "oh, your life would be happier if you ate a different diet and exercised" people pay no attention.

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.

The thought that you ought not to drink while pregnant came much, much later. In fact, I had my first child in 1982, and I was still told by nurses and so forth, 'Have a glass of wine with dinner. It'll help you relax.'

When patients reject official advice and proved medicine, they become more susceptible to quackery.

I was sleeping in a water bed for a couple of years, recommended by my doctor. I was never comfortable in that water bed. In the middle of the night you would hear something happening - water and bubbles. I would always think there was some intelligent life in the water bed.

I worked as a flight attendant while I was pregnant with my son, Jordan. After suffering serious complications, my doctor insisted I stay home to protect the health of my pregnancy.

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

The doctor unfortunately said I was fit.

I never like to tell people what they should take.

When you walk into a doctor's office, you've got to have the same attitude you would about anything else. You've got to ask tough questions, and you've got to not be afraid to challenge their credentials.

I'm amazed people talk about my helmet - saying it makes me feel psychologically better. I would love to play without it, but I'm not allowed to by the doctor. As long as I'm told by the doctor I'm running too much risk to play without it, I'll play with it. There's no other way for me.