285 private quotes tagged medical

“Whenever the people are for gay marriage or medical marijuana or assisted suicide, suddenly the 'will of the people' goes out the window.” — Bill Maher

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“You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten.” — Earl Wilson

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“Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.” — Hippocrates

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“I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.” — Rita Rudner

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“My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.” — Walter Matthau

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“When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays.” — Henny Youngman

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“I was always shocked when I went to the doctor's office and they did my X-ray and didn't find that I had eight more ribs than I should have or that my blood was the color green.” — Nicolas Cage

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“In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.” — Edward Everett Hale

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“The doctors x-rayed my head and found nothing.” — Dizzy Dean

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“I had the privilege of practicing medicine in the early '60s, before we had any government. It worked rather well, and there was nobody on the street suffering with no medical care.” — Ron Paul

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“You can die of the cure before you die of the illness.” — Michael Landon

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“We need to accept the seemingly obvious fact that a toxic environment can make people sick and that no amount of medical intervention can protect us. The health care community must become a powerful political lobby for environmental policy and legislation.” — Andrew Weil

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“The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed.” — Samuel Hahnemann

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“Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.” — Zoe Saldana

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“When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.” — Enid Bagnold

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“I went to the doctor and he said I had acute appendicitis, and I said compared to who?” — Jay London

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“Mammograms are really sort of a gift. You can either catch something early or count your lucky stars because nothing was discovered. Either way, you're ahead of the game.” — Charlotte Ross

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“If you look at the human condition today, not everyone is well fed, has access to good medical care, or the physical basics that provide for a healthy and a happy life.” — Ralph Merkle

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“Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.” — Peter Shaffer

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“In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.” — Martin H. Fischer

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“Medical liability reform is not a Republican or Democrat issue or even a doctor versus lawyer issue. It is a patient issue.” — John Ensign

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“The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.” — Thomas Sydenham

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“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.” — Barbara Mikulski

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“I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.” — James H. Boren

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“My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.” — Natalie Portman

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