I am a career physician. I practiced for 32 years before I began my career as a public servant.
I'm a football coach. I'm not a doctor ... They don't call plays, I don't do surgeries. We have a great deal here.
I'll trust an attorney before I'll trust a doctor.
The physician himself, if sick, actually calls in another physician, knowing that he cannot reason correctly if required to judge his own condition while suffering.
If I was smart enough to be a doctor, I'd be a doctor. I ain't, so I'm a football player.
Thank you for explaining that my eye cancer isn't going to make me deaf. I feel so fortunate that an intellectual giant like yourself would deign to operate on me.
The bottom line to this is, there are few doctors who have any expertise in chemical exposure.
You need an incredible amount of self-confidence to go digging around in someone's brain.
The kind of doctor I want is one who when he's not examining me is home studying medicine.
It's a poor doctor who can't cure one disease without giving you another.
We now live in the era of the super-specialist - of clinicians who have taken the time to practice at one narrow thing until they can do it better than anyone who hasn't.
This isn't brain surgery; it's just television.
Bringing together the unique expertise of researchers from both NYU and the Technion will hopefully enable us to overcome some of the most difficult challenges in treating cancer patients.
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.
Celebrities might be experts when it comes to working the red carpet, but relying on them to guide your health and wellness can be a slippery slope.
Good doctors get a mechanic's pleasure in making you tick over.
Doctors always think anybody doing something they aren't is a quack; also they think all patients are idiots.
When I hear my friend John Boehner say that we have the best health care in the world, I don't dispute it for a moment. If I were sick, this is the country I want to be in, with these doctors, these hospitals, and these medical professionals.
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.
A resident's surgical skill is judged by their technique and speed. You can't be sloppy, and you can't be slow.
I do not think that a Physician should be admitted into the College till he could bring proofs of his having cured, in his own person, at least four incurable distempers.
Being treated by a doctor who specializes in your kind of cancer is so important, especially for those of us who have rare or very rare cancers. They will have access to newer treatment options that may be offered only at big academic cancer centers, so you don't miss out on treatments that could help you.
By his own admission, Carson's remarkable hand-eye coordination allowed him to soar as a surgeon, and he used that success to build a lucrative reputation as a purveyor of advice for young and old. His book for young people is titled 'You Have a Brain.'
Three of my children are medical doctors, they know at least a hundred times as much about your body as my grandfather knew, but they don't know much more about soul than he did.
The best surgeon, like best general, is he who makes the fewest mistakes.
