49 quotes found
“I've been poked and prodded in places I'd always prided myself on keeping untouched for that one special doctor who gives me a ring and a promise someday.”
“I'm going to go where my heart takes me, even if it's a messy road.”
“It's like the commercial, "Once you pop you can't stop." Once you pop a pill, you can't stop. They have you hooked and they know it. Like a drug dealer, they are so happy they have won another loya...”
“There's nothing like a little physical pain to keep your mind off your emotional problems.”
“Acknowledging the important role of the emotions in health and illness, medicine must reexamine its concepts of disease causation.”
“It is perfectly acceptable to have a physical problem in our culture, but people tend to shy away from anything that has to do with the emotions.”
“Most doctors are prisoners of their education and shackled by their profession.”
“The life so short, the craft so long to learn.”
“Human beings are the most successful of animals because of their capability to learn, and an abused animal learns very quickly to defend itself. It also learns very quickly to trust very few people...”
“The spirit is one of the most neglected parts of man by doctors and scientists around the world. Yet, it is as vital to our health as the heart and mind. It's time for science to examine the many f...”
“What the sick need is teachers not treaters, health schools not hospitals, instruction not treatment, education in right living not training the sick habit. Both they and their advisors must get ri...”
“My father, for whose skills as a surgeon I have the deepest respect, says, "The operation with the best outcome is the one you decide not to do." Knowing when not to operate, knowing when I am in o...”
“She hadn't seen a doctor cry before, they usually don't, that makes itharder.- Anita”
“Each patient carries his own doctor inside him.”
“What patients seek is not scientific knowledge that doctors hide but existential authenticity each person must find on her own. Getting too deeply into statistics is like trying to quench a thirst ...”
“If illness' end be health regained then I Will pay you, Asculapeus, when I die.”
“Dr Power stood up. Because your staff are not components that can be fitted in, or replaced when they are unpredictable, or when they are simply being human. Because our patients are not playing a ...”
“The mistakes of doctors are innumerable. They err as a rule out of optimism as to the treatment, and pessimism as to the outcome.”
“I am in a profession that has succeeded because of its ability to fix. If your problem is fixable, we know just what to do. But if its not? The fact that we have had no adequate answers to this que...”
“Two-thirds of all preachers, doctors and lawyers are hanging on to the coat tails of progress, shouting, whoa! while a good many of the rest are busy strewing banana peels along the line of march.”
