Sometimes it takes a lowly, title-less man to humble the world. Kings, rulers, CEOs, judges, doctors, pastors, they are already expected to be greater and wiser.

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...

Regret, Joss. Regret does awful things to a person.

The Doctor: [aiming gun at the ceiling] Didn’t anyone ever tell you? There’s one thing you never put in a trap if you’re smart. If you value your continued existence, if you have any plans...

A doctor gave a man six months to live. The man couldn’t pay his bill, so he gave him another six months.

I’m from a family of doctors, and I think they really wanted me to be a doctor. I even sort of assumed I would be a doctor.

I have no regrets about being ‘Doctor Who’. It was the greatest thing that ever happened to me.

Would you like a name of a good doctor who will schedule your little snip-snip operation?”she bit out.

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...

What’s a doctor, after all? A legitimized voyeur, a stranger whom we permit to poke fingers and even hands into places where we would not permit most people to insert so much as a finger-tip,...

Lipitor is one of the most researched medicines. I’m glad I take Lipitor, as a doctor, and a dad.

If you just found out you had six months left to live, the first thing I’d do is apologize for not delivering the letter 182 days ago, when your doctor first handed it to me...

I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another’s company and aid in consultation.

Fib!” Dr. Pedras feels for a pulse while another places gelled pads on her chest.

Geronimo!

Bethune was a communist and an atheist with a healthy contempt for his evangelical father.

I’m my own doctor. I have a group of people who call me up on a weekly basis. I’m a ‘doctor’ without a license.

I’ve had more fan mail from ‘Doctor Who’ than anything. People love the show so passionately.

I’m really not an actor of any kind. I’ve always seen myself as an entertainer, someone who makes people laugh. That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do. ‘Doctor Who’ has always just been me, really.

I wanted to be a doctor in sports medicine; I was into sailing and all that sort of thing.

None of us came here for the bells and whistles. It’s [for] the personnel. These meetings? Like the one where you got your ass kicked? That’s what makes you a better doctor. That’s all that...

The doctors found out that Bunbury could not live, that is what I mean – so Bunbury died.He seems to have had great confidence in the opinion of his physicians. I am glad, however, that...

In the words of the philosopher Sceptum, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for this?

Of the many ‘firsts’ with which I have been involved at the Texas Heart Institute —including the first successful human heart transplant in the United States and the first total artificial heart transplant in the...

Do not work primarily for money; do your duty to patients first and let the money follow; our life is short, we don’t live twice; the whirlwind will pick up the leaves and spin them,...

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

Angel Bob: Doctor? Excuse me, hello, Doctor? Angel Bob here, sir. The Doctor: Ah, there you are, Angel Bob. How’s life? Sorry, bad subject. Angel Bob: The Angels are wondering what you hope to achieve....

Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?”….I met his gaze and I did not blink. “Words of comfort,” I said to my father.

And then he said the next time he sees me the gloves are coming off. I said, “Doc, that‘s no way to perform a prostrate exam.

I went to the doctor recently and she actually prescribed that I go out for ten minutes a day, I’m so depleted on vitamin D.

Lis Sladen was very important to me, you know. When I joined the little world of ‘Doctor Who’, Lis was already a star.

Maybe she would have done more good as a playwright than as a doctor, after all — clichés were like plaque in the arteries of the imagination, they clogged the sense of what was possible....

I’m now ‘Doctor’ to the patients and I have to cover my ignorance by waving my arms and looking grave.

I’m taking inorganic chem and physics not because I want to but because I have to. Not every doctor wants to be a scientist. Some of us just want to take care of sick people....

This boy was likely to die soon, but he died yesterday – because of a doctor’s arrogance, his unwillingness to seek a consult, his neglect to get a full and thorough history. Arrogance! We are...

Love is what you make it. Unfortunately, I can’t make it today, as I have a doctor’s appointment.

Repression. Her therapist, Dr. Solomon, loved the word. He’d say it slowly, letting it roll off his tongue. Sometimes he’d add a chin stroke for good measure. He always looked pleased when he did this,...

The midwife considers the miracle of childbirth as normal, and leaves it alone unless there’s trouble. The obstetrician normally sees childbirth as trouble; if he leaves it alone, it’s a miracle.

You don’t want to take over the universe. You wouldn’t know what to do with it beyond shout at it.

My very core clenches and spasms, my hips with a mind of their own, lurch. It is as if I no longer have control of any part of my body. ‘Ugh,’ I continue to groan...

Time and time again, throughout the history of medical practice, what was once considered as “scientific” eventually becomes regarded as “bad practice”.

When the doctor told me I had cancer, I was scared.

Nobody’s cut out for this town,” Shane said. “Nobody sane anyway.””Says the kid who came back.””Yeah, kind of proves my point.

I wanted to be a doctor when I was young. I also wanted to be a paramedic, but I always wanted to be an actor as well. I didn’t have kids or something that I...

Science affects the average man and woman in two ways already. He or she benefits by its application driving a motor-car or omnibus instead of a horse-drawn vehicle, and being treated for disease by a...

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.

The Doctor: Amazing. Nancy: What is? The Doctor: 1941. Right now, not very far from here, the German war machine is rolling up the map of Europe. Country after country, falling like dominoes. Nothing can...

The Rockies are the backbone of this country. And I’m no doctor, but I think we have scoliosis.

I do take care of myself; I get my nails done, and I have a skin doctor, but that’s it. I’m clean and groomed.

John Smith: Mankind doesn’t need warfare and bloodshed to prove itself. Everyday life can provide honour and valour. Let’s hope that from now on this country can find its heroes in smaller places. In the...