Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You’re not out of it until the computer says you’re out of it.
I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.
I’m strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.
Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
I’m wondering if they haven’t reported all the people with MS, because if all of the cases were reported, the government would have to step in and give more financial aid to us.
It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.
I’m not feeling very well – I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course.
Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light.
The patient decides when it’s best to go.
Nurses serve their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve as our first lines of communication when something goes wrong or when we are concerned about health.
Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.
The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.
Medical liability reform is not a Republican or Democrat issue or even a doctor versus lawyer issue. It is a patient issue.
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.
Nature can do more than physicians.
Flying back from New York, the flight attendant said ‘God, I wished you were here yesterday, we had a stroke on the plane. I said, if I have a stroke on a plane, I hope the pretend doctor isn’t the one on the plane. I want a real doctor.
All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You’d be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.
Prescription: A physician’s guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
A physician’s physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric’s divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed.
Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone’s information is out there, it’s part of the collective.
The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.
Honestly, being a doctor could make you more close minded than regular people.
