Doctor quotes

Page 1

◆ There's something that doesn't make sense. Let's go and poke it with a stick.

- Steven Moffat100

◆ Failing to listen to the woman is one of the biggest mistakes a practitioner can make.

- Helen Varney99

◆ Childbirth is normal until proven otherwise.

- Peggy Vincent99

◆ It would be a mistake, though, to consider care by family doctors or midwives inferior to that offered by obstetricians simply on the grounds that obstetricians need not refer care to a family physician or midwife if no complications develop during a course of labor.

- Ina May Gaskin99

◆ Of course, if 40% of women need oxytocin to progress normally, then something is wrong with the definition of normal.

- Henci Goer99

◆ You cannot separate passion from pathology any more than you can separate a person's spirit from his body.

- Richard Selzer99

◆ Worries about the power of a doctor's suggestions to influence and shape his patient's mind, whether they are made under hypnosis or not, are still with us.

- Siri Hustvedt99

◆ I asked my doctor for the best gift ever: Life. Still, he wouldn't take one for me.

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ How grand, to be a Doctor of whatever and to weigh up and decide people's future.

- Sebastian Faulks99

◆ Um médico, só por si, vale alguns homens.

- Homer99

◆ If my doctor told me I only had five minutes to live, I'd probably change all the clocks in my house, because they're all five minutes fast and I want to know exactly how much time I have left so I can use it wisely. ?

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ Playing doctor has long been a symptom of culture.

- Marjorie Garber: Symptoms of Culture99

◆ A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession.

- Martin H. Fischer99

◆ The freedom of patient speech is necessary if the doctor is to get clues about the medical enigma before him. If the patient is inhibited, or cut off prematurely, or constrained into one path of discussion, then the doctor may not be told something vital. Observers have noted that, on average, physicians interrupt patients within eighteen seconds of when they begin telling their story.

- Jerome Groopman99

◆ We may indeed be justly proud of our apostolic succesion. THESE ARE OUR METHODS - to carefully observe the phenomena of life in all its stages , to cultivate reasoning faculty so as to be able to know the true from the false. THIS IS OUR WORK - to prevent disease, to relieve suffering and to heal the sick.

- William Osler99