"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."

“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."

"When I was still in my psychiatric residency training in New York City, I was subjected to the doctor draft of that time, during the early fifties, at the time of the Korean War."

"Have a hand in your own treatment. I have nothing but praise for our doctors, but I think they could help us better, and we can help them if we work together."

"Both my parents were doctors, and my mother had her surgery in the house. There were six children."

"People pay the doctor for his trouble; for his kindness they still remain in his debt."

"There aren't more lady songwriters for the same reason that there aren't more lady doctors or lady accountants or lady lawyers; not enough women have the time for careers."

"I often look at a lot of Doctor Who stuff that's about now, which no one has approached me about."

"I always made a point of telling the doctors I was sane, and asking to be released, but the more I endeavored to assure them of my sanity, the more they doubted it"

"Ethically, I think pretty much every code of ethics for doctors suggests that they should not be in an interrogation room, particularly if there's anything coercive or abusive going on."

"I wanted to do everything. I wanted to be a pilot. I wanted to be a secret agent. I wanted to be a fireman and a doctor, all that. So I related that through movies and stuff."

"In this case they're doctors. But having passion for your work and to take risks in order to better human kind. That's a pretty big theme. It's pretty inspiring."

“Sometimes its said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category.”

“Drugs are in every walk of life - doctors, lawyers, preachers, the guy who works for IBM, teenagers on the street, teenagers in school.”