Financial ruin from medical bills is almost exclusively an American disease. —Roul Turley More about this quote Tags: disease America medicine Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “medicine” One day Joseph Lister was summoned to assist a wealthy lord with a fishbone that had lodged at the back of his throat. After Lister had skillfully removed the obstruction, the grateful patient asked him what he was owed. "My lord," Lister suggested, "suppose we settle for half of what you would be willing to give me if the bone were still lodged in your throat. —The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes More about this quote Tags: health value medicine Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email In order to be a good doctor a man must also have a good character; that is to say, whatever weaknesses and foibles he may have, he must love his fellow human beings in the concrete and desire their good before his own. —W. H. Auden More about this quote Tags: love character weakness good desire medicine doctor well-wishing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email The . . . patient should be made to understand that he or she must take charge of his own life. Don't take your body to the doctor as if he were a repair shop. —Quentin Regestein More about this quote Tags: life body medicine Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Who ever said that doctors are truthful or even intelligent? You're getting a lot if they know their profession. Don't ask any more from them. They're only human, after all. —Marjorie Karmel More about this quote Tags: truth intelligence medicine doctors Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email 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 More about this quote Tags: love sickness medicine doctors permission Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One day Joseph Lister was summoned to assist a wealthy lord with a fishbone that had lodged at the back of his throat. After Lister had skillfully removed the obstruction, the grateful patient asked him what he was owed. "My lord," Lister suggested, "suppose we settle for half of what you would be willing to give me if the bone were still lodged in your throat. —The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes More about this quote Tags: health value medicine Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In order to be a good doctor a man must also have a good character; that is to say, whatever weaknesses and foibles he may have, he must love his fellow human beings in the concrete and desire their good before his own. —W. H. Auden More about this quote Tags: love character weakness good desire medicine doctor well-wishing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The . . . patient should be made to understand that he or she must take charge of his own life. Don't take your body to the doctor as if he were a repair shop. —Quentin Regestein More about this quote Tags: life body medicine Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Who ever said that doctors are truthful or even intelligent? You're getting a lot if they know their profession. Don't ask any more from them. They're only human, after all. —Marjorie Karmel More about this quote Tags: truth intelligence medicine doctors Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: love sickness medicine doctors permission Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email