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- Nov 07, 2020
Doctor Quotes
For the profession everyone jokes about.
Several of these quotes lean into classic doctor humor, the kind of one-liner about bills and bedside manner that fits naturally alongside the doctor jokes collection.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
We love a growing private sector that allows people freedom of choice, to choose their health plan, to choose their doctor, to choose their hospital.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think mental illness or madness can be an escape also. People don't develop a mental illness because they are in the happiest of situations, usually. One doctor observed that it was rare when people were rich to become schizophrenic. If they were poor or didn't have too much money, then it was more likely.
- Medical
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- Nov 07, 2020
Medical liability reform is not a Republican or Democrat issue or even a doctor versus lawyer issue. It is a patient issue.
- Medicine
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started the nuclear medicine laboratory at UW Hospitals in 1959 and trained radiology residents in the field. It was 1965 before they found a trained MD (doctor) to take over my role.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to tell you as a doctor, 25 years of practice, not as a politician using talking points, as somebody who has taken care of Medicare patients, we can make it a lot better.
- Company
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want anybody between a doctor and a patient - not an insurance company bureaucrat or a Washington bureaucrat.
- Nov 07, 2020
It wasn't until I got involved in 'Doctor Who' that I started doing dramas on television.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up all over the world. My dad was a doctor but not a career-type doctor. He was very curious, so he took the whole family and moved to Miami in the '70s, and we lived there for a couple of years. Then we continued like that and lived in various places around the world.
- Nov 07, 2020
My doctor is wonderful. Once, in 1955, when I couldn't afford an operation, he touched up the X-rays.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do fear God, but I will also tell you that when a doctor diagnoses you and the word 'cancer' comes out of his mouth, at that point, it changes your life and you do fear less and it also has allowed me to be a lot more open as a person. It's changed me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember once when I was working on a magazine, and one of the male editors was going on a field trip with one of his sons. The office was full of, 'He's such a good dad,' whereas I came in late from a doctor's appointment for one of my children and was asked, 'Where were you? You'll need to make up the time.'
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I asked my doctor how many more years I have left and he said, 'You're too ornery to die.'
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have stood on the front lines of the health care system as a doctor, patient and concerned parent. Those experiences have served as my guideposts throughout the struggle to reform America's health care system. And it's those same experiences that tell me that fear and election hysteria should not overshadow the reality of reform.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020