"I love doctors and hate their medicine."

“For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.”

"My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother."

“I began to see during the civil war, in that part of the states of Missouri and Kansas where the doctors were shut out, the children did not die.”

"Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week."

"I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words."

"Don't bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don't feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace."

“We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.”

"The South produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors, lawyers and poets, but certainly not engineers or mechanics. Let the Yankees adopt such low callings."

"I took anatomy classes. I went to medical libraries and talked to doctors and nutritionists. I did the whole thing before using myself as a human guinea pig."

"America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world."

"The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes."

"I've been told by doctors and surgeons that I have the energy of ten men who have normal jobs."

"It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying."

"Doctors cut, burn, and torture the sick, and then demand of them an undeserved fee for such services."

"Each patient carries his own doctor inside him."

"I told my doctor I wonna stop aging, he gave me a gun!"

"I think I definitely got scared by the second or third time a doctor told me I was dying."

"A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care."

"I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places."

"No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends."

'I told my doctor I get very tired when I go on a diet, so he gave me pep pills. Know what happened? I ate faster."

"As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified."

"Two young doctors - one from Harvard and the other from Dartmouth - invited me to go to Mecca in my husband's stead. And that is what helped put me back on track."