More quotations tagged with “doctors”
The best doctor in the world is the veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the matter-he's got to just know.
—Will Rogers
I thought I wanted his love, but really I wanted his pity. I wanted to quit. But he wouldn't let me. "A good doctor can cure your illness, but only the greatest doctor can show you you were never sick," Roshi has said.
—Shozan Jack Haubner in Zen Confidential: Confessions of a Wayward Monk
Doctors don't know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in spirit.
—William Saroyan
The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated.
—Plato
When Charles II had a fit while shaving in 1685, he was lucky to be treated with the finest medical advice of the day. He was attended by fourteen physicians who… shaved his head, applied blistering agents to his scalp, put special plasters made from pigeon droppings onto the soles of his feet, fed him bezoar stones (much-prized gallstones from the bladder of a goat), and made him drink forty drops of extract from a dead man's skull. He died two days later.
—Karl Shaw