My father, for whose skills as a surgeon I have the deepest respect, says, “The operation with the best outcome is the one you decide not to do.” Knowing when not to operate, knowing when...

The doctors gave him some tests, and they are going to do more tests. I’m hoping he’ll be back soon. But I have no idea. It’s a medical thing.

The French doctor – the French, they are a very logical race and make good doctors – says: “M’sieu, they have all been on the wrong track – (“Jane Brown’s Body”)

The combined imagery of the PET and CT into this advanced technology now provides doctors with a single, highly defined, three-dimensional image of targeted areas of the human body. The PET/CT provides important information about...

It got pretty sore. The doctors said it should be fine.

They’ve spent a week trying to exclude the votes of men and women in uniform, police, fire, nurses, doctors. Now, their newfound dedication to the counting of ballots, though welcome, seems a little off.

Like most doctors, the fanciest ones, he seemed offensively healthy, as if he kept the real secret of vitality to himself. He would live forever and people would crumble and die around him. You were...

Nursing would be a dream job if there were no doctors.

It’s just a sprained ankle that’s sore. It just happened so it’s a quick turnaround. The doctors and trainers didn’t want me to test it. A day to get it better tomorrow and we’ll see.

It’s just a bruise. The doctors said it will go away.

Doctor, you are on the team”. I say.He smiles.

At the annual meeting of team doctors, a panel of independent cardiologists retained by the league gave a presentation of sudden cardiac death in athletes. The presentation included a cardiac screening protocol that, beginning next...

It seems to be my best option. Even if I came back [to play] after rehab, [doctors] wanted me to have surgery after the season, and they didn’t like the odds too much.

After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.

GPs are almost the only doctors these days who understand all problems, can see the whole person…spend time with the dying…see things through to the end.

Acknowledging the important role of the emotions in health and illness, medicine must reexamine its concepts of disease causation.

Before you examine the body of a patient, be patient to learn his story. For once you learn his story, you will also come to know his body.

What would have become of the people five hundred years ago if they had followed strictly the advice of the doctors? They would have all been dead. What would the people have been, if at...

I don’t think you can be a physician and not see yourself reflected in your patient’s illness. How would I deal with the kind of news I’d given Mr. Walters?

It never occurred to them that God may have provided the world with a vast array of very brainy medical types for the very reason of solving problems such as theirs. However, there is one...

He’s recovering very quickly but his doctors advised him not to come at this stage so he can recoup and get playing again,

I lay my cheek on his solid back. I realize this is the real Jacade. The man who’s strong and fierce, but vulnerable and damaged. Confident and dominating, but generous and kind.

Vince doesn’t look too good right now. So hopefully our doctors have that secret formula.

(Doctors) were saying we can’t tell you if you are going to play again. A couple of doctors were saying we’re more worried about you walking than playing football.

Just recently the doctors cleared me 100 percent to begin getting ready for the upcoming season. The team, with a couple of pieces, can be a Super Bowl champion. I believe that and I’m sure...

Doctors are great–as long as you don’t need them.

It?s a neurological problem being evaluated as we go along under doctors? care.

His doctors were very encouraged, because there was less damage to his tendons than feared, and they’re optimistic about his recovery.

I do a lot with the military; I’m not in the Marine Corps anymore because they don’t have doctors, but after 9/11, they called me back and I do a lot with the Air Force...

We can not have physicians in a position, as we’re hearing and as doctors are telling us, to feel intimidated or threatened in any way to sign forms if in fact these people do not...

I’ve got the keys to three doctors’ homes. You know what kind of wine they got? I’ve been drinking wine and eating cheese with my friends each night.

If someone walked into the room and said Keith is ready, healthy, beautiful, the doctors think it?s wonderful and he can play, everybody would be all excited around here. No one has said that.

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.

The mistakes of doctors are innumerable. They err as a rule out of optimism as to the treatment, and pessimism as to the outcome.

The spirit is one of the most neglected parts of man by doctors and scientists around the world. Yet, it is as vital to our health as the heart and mind. It’s time for science...

I saved a man’s life once,” said Granny. “Special medicine, twice a day. Boiled water with a bit of berry juice in it. Told him I’d bought it from the dwarves. That’s the biggest part...

Physician, heal thyself.

I told her that I didn’t want to take any drugs. That I had come here not to take drugs. “Listen,” she said, not unkindly, “up until now I would say that ninety-nine percent of...

We have doctors, lawyers, judges, CEOs, teachers, surgeons, everybody from all walks of life,

Each patient carries his own doctor inside him.

We played ball for years. We’re not greedy doctors. But the administrative burdens outweigh the benefits of being in the network.

Most doctors are prisoners of their education and shackled by their profession.

The cafeteria in the Chicago’s Children’s Memorial Hospital basement was the saddest place in the world—and forever it shall be—with its grim neon lights and gray tabletops and the diffuse foreboding of those who stepped...

There is no such thing as an infallible doctor.

We need to make sure doctors can afford to practice medicine here and of course recruitment activities (need to be in place) so health care is more available to people.

If you look at the obligations of the health professions and doctors in particular, UN standards, World Medical Association standards, AMA standards, the responsibility of the physician in war or peace is to improve peoples’...

The doctors advised me not to take any chances. I would love to have played here in Rotterdam, all the more so because I’ve not played for a long time. But I have to be...

Don’t let sickness, depression, and disease THUG YOU OUT. Eat healthier, think healthier, speak healthier, and more positively over your life. When you do so, you will soon begin to conquer your life and your...

No doctor knows everything. There’s a reason why it’s called “practising” medicine.

I finally gave in today. Admitting that I haven’t been able to do it alone, that’s defeat right? But do a couple pills change why I’m here? Will my spirit be altered? Do my passions...