Doctors Quotes — Page 43

Writer, Philosopher

“The doctors are all agreed that I am suffering for want of society. Was never a case like it. First, I did not know that I was suffering at all. Secondly, as an Irishman might say, I had thought it was indigestion of the society I got.”

Suffering Doctors Solitude

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HJ

Henry James

Author

“do you think it is better to be clever than to be good?” “Good for what?” asked the Doctor. “You are good for nothing unless you are clever.”

Thinking Doctors Clever

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Henry David Thoreau

Writer, Philosopher

“Heal yourselves, doctors; by God I live.”

Religion Doctors

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Henry David Thoreau

Writer, Philosopher

“To the sick the doctors wisely recommend a change of air and scenery.”

Doctors Travel

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Lewis Thomas

Physician, Author

“The dilemma of modern medicine, and the underlying central flaw in medical education and, most of all, in the training of interns, is the irresistible drive to do something, anything. It is expected by patients and too often agreed to by their doctors, in the face of ignorance.”

Ignorance Doctors Medicine

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James Thurber

Cartoonist, Author

“Hundreds of hysterical persons must confuse these phenomena with messages from the beyond and take their glory to the bishop rather than the eye doctor.”

Eye Doctors Atheist

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Henry Rollins

Musician, Writer, Actor

“If I were a doctor, I would prescribe that you addict yourself deeply and irrevocably to music and never, ever seek cure outside of more music. It really is the best drug available.”

Doctors Drug Cures

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher, Writer

“The most dangerous physicians are those born actors who imitate born physicians with a perfectly deceptive guile.”

Actors Doctors Physicians

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Khaled Hosseini

Author, Physician

“I was good at being a doctor; my patients liked me. At times people trust you with things they wouldn't tell their spouses. It was a real privilege.”

People Real Doctors

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Khaled Hosseini

Author, Physician

“You say you felt a presence, but I only sensed an absence. A vague pain without a source. I was like a patient who cannot tell the doctor where it hurts, only that it does.”

Pain Hurt Doctors

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LA

Lily Allen

Singer-Songwriter

“I think that education works up to a certain point... I think unless I wanted to be like a nurse, or a doctor, or something that required that kind of knowledge, then education is fine. But I didn't really know what I wanted to do, so I didn't see the point in spending seven more years of my life studying something.”

Thinking Years Doctors

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KH

Kim Harrison

Author

“if I’d been hit with the same thing as Glenn, I probably had his doctor. The thought seemed about right when Glenn shrank back in his chair with a guilty expression. The tomato, too, was in hiding somewhere. I didn’t want to know where. I truly didn’t.”

Expression Doctors Tomatoes

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