Mentors won’t make you rich. Doctors won’t make you healthy. Nutritionists won’t make you slim. Teachers won’t make you smart. Gurus won’t make you calm. Trainers won’t make you fit. Ultimately, you have to take...

My doctor told me to avoid unnecessary stress, so I stopped going to doctors.

One American in seven has no coverage, and one in three younger than sixty-five will lose coverage at some point in the next two years. These are people who aren’t poor or old enough to...

Cure the disease and kill the patient.

Thomas has been working with trainer Donna Hull and with the doctors, and we don’t get him until he’s ready to go. He may be back in some limited capacity on our relays this season.

We know that the doctors and the staff that have taken care of them really care about them. It’s not just a job for them, and that has made all the difference to us.

You have a history of starving yourself,” he says gently.I lift my head. I meet his gaze. “I have a history that I don’t like to talk about.

I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.

Western doctors are like poor plumbers. They treat a splashing tube by cleaning up the water. These plumbers are extremely apt at drying up the water, constantly inventing new, expensive, and refined methods of drying...

We found that success involved much more than skilled individual doctors and nurses. What distinguished these hospitals was how well they were organized, how teams functioned together, how the culture rewarded quality improvement and how...

Who needs a Dr. when you have WebMD? Who needs a counselor when you have the Holy Spirit? And who needs Wal-Mart when you have Amazon.com? 🙂

We’re not doctors. We have to tell people that all the time. They look at us when we walk in the door and they assume we know everything.

The doctors said later everything seemed OK and seemed to be cured, but my condition is still monitored once a year.

JD/Dr Cox: The second you start blaming yourself for people’s deaths, there’s no coming back.

Doctors didn’t know what to do with me.

There are definitions of morbid obesity. Doctors define it.

The night before brain surgery, I thought about death. I searched out my larger values, and I asked myself, if I was going to die, did I want to do it fighting and clawing or...

Never congratulate a doctor for the fast recovery of a patient.

Where there were once several competing approaches to medicine, there is now only one that matters to most hospitals, insurers, and the vast majority of the public. One that has been shaped to a great...

The core predicament of medicine – the thing that makes being a patient so wrenching, being a doctor so difficult, and being a part of society that pays the bills they run up so vexing...

Two-thirds of all preachers, doctors and lawyers are hanging on to the coat tails of progress, shouting, whoa! while a good many of the rest are busy strewing banana peels along the line of march.

I’m fine, I’m fine. I feel fine. The doctors assessed her this morning and say she is OK.

The most exquisite pleasure in the practice of medicine comes from nudging a layman in the direction of terror, then bringing him back to safety again.

Why do you want to persecute yourself with the question of where all this is coming from and where it is going? Since you know, after all, that you are in the midst of transitions...

Men who are occupied in the restoration of health to other men, by the joint exertion of skill and humanity, are above all the great of the earth. They even partake of divinity, since to...

Brett was seen by doctors and they are happy with the progress of treatment so far. The problem areas around his left knee appear to have improved.

Only rarely do doctors in training have the opportunity to sit continuously with laboring women for hours. Most are taught to intervene in the normal process so often and so early that they have never...

Time is generally the best doctor.

The way I feel and from what the doctors tell me, I don’t feel like it’s serious. We just took the precaution to come out.

This case raises questions about doctors’ ‘rush to judgment’ in declaring people with brain injury permanently unconscious and about the state’s ? through the courts and its agencies ? eagerness to withhold treatment and end...

It probably was a fall and it swelled up on me. I kept playing on it. … My doctors just said rest it as much as possible.

Fifteen were arrested, and most were beaten. We have requested that they be given access to doctors.

We have done everything medically we can do [to prevent this]. We have doctors trained in emergency medicine, in heart problems and other specialties standing by at every game. It’s not just internists. It’s people...

Our doctors felt comfortable about the circumstance of his injury, where he is in his rehab and where he can be in the future. It’s our goal to get him ready for this season. He’s...

And to all the doctors and people who said there was no hope for children with progeria and they don’t live long I want to say, ‘You’re wrong.

Sharon was in a life-threatening situation because of intestinal damage and as result doctors decided to operate.

We want progress in medicine to be clear and unequivocal, but of course it rarely is. Every new treatment has gaping unknowns – for both patients and society – and it can be hard to...

We have notified doctors of this outbreak and urged them to be on the lookout for additional cases. It’s important that they voluntarily report any suspected illnesses to their local health department.

Several of our doctors who were assisting patients on the Coast have come back and told us to be prepared.

Listen, I wanted to say, I don’t need your judgment, okay? I have enough to deal with without you contributing, so can we just get on with this so I can get out of here?But...

It’s a break, … And three of the four doctors I’ve seen said breaks generally take six to eight weeks to heal.

A doctor, a teacher and a politician have no caste.

A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist; he is either, like the surgeon, a craftsman, or, like the physician and the psychologist,...

I feel like I’m going to, but that’s going to be up to the doctors. I don’t see any reason why I wouldn’t be able to. I think I’m almost 100 percent.

Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered.

Every day,” I said, “every day I go to work and I see my granddad. I see the drunks and the addicts, the people who have fallen right off the edge of the earth. I...

I don’t know when he’ll be back. I haven’t talked to the doctors, so I’m hoping, but specific types seem to go longer than a week or two weeks.

Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution the time will come when medicine will organize itself into an undercover dictatorship. To restrict the art of healing to doctors and deny equal privileges to others...

Sometimes the doctors that we were hoping to profile, or a hospital that understood our goal, would recommend a patient who would be a good candidate for a specific surgery. And sometimes we would find...

We have done everything medically we could do. We have doctors trained in emergency medicine, in heart problems and other specialties standing by at every game. It’s not just internists. It’s people who know what...