Doctor Quotations

I know theater can improve the quality of people's lives, and I know theater can heal. I've worked as a doctor clown in a hospital for two years. I have seen sick kids and sad parents and doctors be lifted and transported in moments of pure joy. I know theater unites us.

I like to learn about things. I could learn about business, which I knew nothing about. Since the age of 7, I wanted to be a doctor and nothing else.

I take care of myself and take antioxidating supplements suggested by my best friend and first fan - he takes care of my Internet presence - Doctor Mario Rosario Porzio. I eat well - in fact, very well.

I think summer has become a venue for TV like it hasn't been in years past, especially on Sunday nights. I know that when I'm winding down at the end of the weekend, just a really great TV show or movie is exactly what the doctor ordered.

My father served as an Army doctor in West Germany in the late '50s and early '60s. As a result, he and my mother - both native southerners - were acutely aware of what had happened during the Holocaust.

My wife and I have never been able to have kids of our own. Physically, it's impossible. The doctor checked. So we tend to unofficially adopt lots of twenty-somethings. I have a real soft spot in my heart for youth.

It started last year, during the summer. I went to the doctor and they found out it was kidney stones, so they had surgery done to help get those out and to pass them... More just kept coming in. So I had all together before the last show... I had like five surgeries.

My mother hoped I would meet a nice doctor or barrister or accountant who would marry me and take me to live in what is now called Fashionable Dublin Four. But she felt that this was a vain hope. I was a bit loud to make a nice professional wife, and anyway, I was too keen on spending my holidays in far flung places to meet any of these people.

In the history of medicine, it is not always the great scientist or the learned doctor who goes forward to discover new fields, new avenues, new ideas.

I really try to have fun. If I don't have fun, you won't have fun. That's what my gift is: to relieve people from a little of the pain and comfort in their lives by allowing my comedy to distract them. A good laugh is almost as good as any doctor visit.

Often, I'll read a script and the female character's an extension or serves some sort of purpose in terms of the male character's narrative and it just isn't fully formed. But they will be very beautiful. Whether a secretary or a doctor or a vet, they will be very beautiful.

A designer is like a doctor for a woman. He has a specific job, and if he is doing it well, he will have the gratitude of the woman for the rest of his life.

I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

Ask everyone whether they're an actor or a doctor or a teacher or whatever is entitled to his or her opinion. But unfortunately, because actors are in the public eye, whether we want it or not, sometimes our opinions carry more weight or influence than they deserve.

When I taught writing classes to psychiatric patients, I met people whose stories of manic highs and immobilizing lows appeared to be textbook descriptions of classic bipolar disorder. I met other patients who had been diagnosed with myriad disorders. No doctor seemed to agree about what they actually suffered from.

Running just makes me happy. I love the freedom of running. I ran until I was seven and a half months pregnant with each of my babies. When I gave birth to my first son, my doctor said I couldn't run for six weeks. I was sneaking back out after eight days.

My father died during open-heart surgery on March 29 of my senior year in college. I was getting set to go to law school. I remember sitting in the waiting room when the doctor walked in. I said to myself, The worst possible thing just happened. What will you do?

During my New York run, I injured my voice badly. I was getting increasingly hoarse, and it finally gave up. The doctor said I had two choices. Either cancel things, or try my luck and perhaps never speak again. That's not much of a choice.

It's interesting when people make comments about celebrities' weight gain or lack of weight gain as if they're a medical professional that's treating that celebrity. Like, 'This doctor does not treat Jessica Simpson, but thinks her weight is unhealthy.' If you don't treat her, then how do you know?

Most people are squeamish about saying how much they earn, but in medicine the situation seems especially fraught. Doctors aren't supposed to be in it for the money, and the more concerned a doctor seems to be about making money the more suspicious people become about the care being provided.

The thing you see in survivors is that they express feelings - I won't say some of the things they tell their doctors, when doctors tell them they're going to die in six months. Boy, do they let the doctor know how they feel about that statement.

My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'

I like porterhouse steak, rib-eyes and New York strip. This works for me because I have very low cholesterol and low blood pressure. It's not good for everyone; you have to talk to your doctor about that. I also eat fish and cheese. I like clean food prepared as simply as possible.

A doctor can only treat patients. A doctor can only help the people who are shot or who are injured. But a politician can stop people from injuries. A politician can take a step so that no person is scared tomorrow.

The two most frightening words in Washington are 'bipartisan consensus.' Bipartisan consensus is when my doctor and my lawyer agree with my wife that I need help.

In 1962, I had an entry-level reporter's job at an Omaha television station. I had bargained to get a salary of $100 dollars a week because I didn't feel I could tell Meredith's doctor father I was making less.

In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.

The most memorable interviews for me are folks whose names I don't know: young civil rights leaders in the South, showing great courage as they walked into a town in the dark of night. A doctor working for 'Doctors Without Borders' in Somalia, operating by kerosene light in a tent. Those are the kinds of people that linger in your memory.

Teaching sometimes seems like not one profession, but every profession. We ask them to be doctor and diplomat, calf-herder, map-maker, wizard and watchman, electricians of the mind.

The positive is they found something they can fix. It's been a string of bad fortune for him injury-wise, but we're happy the doctor has been able to locate something we can do something about.

When I was on my honeymoon, I lost use of my right arm and right leg, and that's when we knew something was wrong. I was not totally paralyzed, but there was loss of sensation and feeling. The doctor on the ship could feel that my right side was weaker. They told me something was going on, but that it was not a medical emergency and that it didn't matter if I went off the boat that day or in four days.

We brought him a doctor and now he's fine.

Very few of these people make it to a treatment facility. They usually find another source. They usually doctor shop. They usually have more than one doctor for their illegal source of drugs.

We're going to discover as time goes on that there is some adversity ... They are not in love with each other. These three guys were essentially shanghaied and made to do this job, whether they want to or not. And they're geniuses, so they have egos. I play a doctor, and I never met a doctor without an ego.

We're expecting the doctor to say he can practice. If he is cleared, he'll practice today right after his appointment.

With the state of the world today, an alien intervention might be just what the doctor ordered. ... Threshold

We know for a fact that lesbians are likely to be under-insured and only go to the doctor when there's a problem. We weren't doing full justice just focusing on cancer.

We were traversing across a snow field and he was ahead of me and then the avalanche broke above him, and just took him away and, you know, you're always running against the clock in a situation like this and I tried to do my best. I found him and he was still alive, eventually the doctor got there and it was out of my hands at that point.

We are all hurt by insurance scams. As health care consumers, we all end up paying the price for fraud. Health insurance fraud perpetrators are basically stealing from consumers who are paying into the insurance system. Whether it's a doctor charging for a procedure that wasn't actually administered or a phony insurance agent selling fraudulent insurance to a senior citizen, the cost of fraud ends up being passed on to consumers.

What we're doing is entertaining. It's like a medical show. When you go to the hospital you're not going to find that doctor you see on TV.

Yesterday on my physical, the doctor gave me an X-ray and she said she couldn't find anywhere where I got hurt on my back, so that pretty much answers your question.

The eye doctor that I was going to since I was 7, for eight years never checked the pressure in my eye. If he had, my eye would have been saved.

The procedure was 100 percent effective in alleviating the problem, but my doctor advised me to take it easy and spend this weekend relaxing at home.

When I finished my residency in New Orleans, I went to L.A. where I would work as a doctor during the day, and then at night I would actually go to The Improv and do standup, all the while kind of cultivating my comedy resume.

When I did get hurt, it was crazy to hear a doctor say that I might never ski again. It really made me take my rehab seriously and take everything more seriously. I couldn't be more stoked.

We're looking forward to it. If you want to get some respect, you've got to play the best and beat the best. It's not usually what the doctor orders, but hey, we'll take it.

When the meet was over and everyone had left, all I was left with was the pain. I went to see the doctor right after that and came out and lights were off in the arena and everyone was gone. It was dark, I was alone and I didn't feel good. I didn't feel like I'd just had an amazing meet.

Luckily the doctor is one of the leading guys in Europe and I'm happy to be seeing him and getting the problem cleared up. It's a player's worst nightmare really. Hopefully it heals and everything goes to plan.

Luckily, the doctor is one of the leading guys in Europe and I'm happy to be seeing him and getting the problem cleared up. Within six to eight weeks, I'll be completely back up and running and three weeks after the surgery, I should be jogging and building it up until I'm back.

Leonard was very sick all morning. He got IVs and the doctor made a judgment that he could play. Leonard made a judgment that he wanted to play, and then we played. When it's over, we don't make excuses. We don't make alibis and we really don't cry about it. We move on.

Many of them also have other issues including a lack of transportation. Parents may have to miss time from work to take their child to the doctor and that can be an issue for a low-income family as well.

Many people think that history is a dull subject. Dull? Is it "dull" that Jesse James once got bitten on the forehead by an ant, and at first it didn't seem like anything, but then the bite got worse and worse, so he went to a doctor in town, and the secretary told him to wait, so he sat down and waited, and waited, and waited, and waited, and then finally he got to see the doctor, and the doctor put some salve on it? You call that dull?

Share your story. Your pharmacist or your doctor is not going to know you drink 15 cups of coffee a day unless you tell them, or that you drink wine with dinner every night.

So I had my doctor and I went and I noticed he was overworked. Whether he was greedy or not, I don't know, but he was overworked.

She was diagnosed with cancer at Thanksgiving time in 2004. She went into her doctor complaining of a sore throat and they did some blood tests and discovered she had leukemia.

She went to the doctor today, and he said it was two weeks before she could start jogging. Alicia and Sara are really close to my heart because I've coached them since the sixth grade. I was their grade school coach.

She's halfway through the treatments and reports from her doctor are favorable. The tumor is 50 percent of what it was, so that's a good thing. We take things day by day, one day at a time.

She's been cleared to play full-out now. And, if the first two practices are any indication . . . She's just what the doctor ordered.

She's going to the doctor (Monday); she's still sick. I'd say she's questionable.

She delayed going back to her doctor when she needed to. She had to go home immediately and she had jeopardized her health. She made a great sacrifice for us.

She directs one of the finest breast-cancer centers in the country. We get a lot of cancer survivors who tell their story, but we never get this perspective on how a doctor became a patient. Normally you go to a doctor who has not experienced what you've experienced.

She did not train today because she is not feeling well. The doctor has confirmed that she does not have the flu or a temperature. She is resting.

She offered about three years ago to be a surrogate and we were hoping we wouldn't have to be faced with that and hoping to have a child on our own, and when the doctor said that's our last chance to have a baby no our own -- is to have a surrogate, we called Raquel, and she was so honored that we came back and asked her, she started crying.

Most patients don't follow daily treatment regimens no matter how good their doctor is. That disconnect is huge, and it's a large factor in how well we control asthma in kids and adults.

Most people start eating healthy after the doctor says they have a problem. That's just human nature.

Mr. Limbaugh and I have maintained from the start that there was no doctor shopping, and we continue to hold this position.

Mr (Joseph) Estrada is complaining of fever and night chills and the preliminary diagnosis of the doctor is that he has an acute bronchitis. He's also been complaining of pain in his joints and legs.

My main arteries are great. The doctor says I look great, so here I am.

My first reaction to the doctor was I'm going to throw up. I couldn't even stomach it.

One doctor said to me, 'The more people pray for you, the more energy is put out somewhere,' ... And he said, 'I'm a doctor telling you this: It works.'

No one can disagree that the doctor provides a good service to the community. We want to see if she has any special needs and find a mutually beneficial solution.

No one becomes a good doctor before he fills a churchyard

My doctor told me Thursday that I could play with as much pain as I could take. It didn't affect me in the beginning of the game, but in the second half the cut opened up and the Band-Aid came off. It started throbbing and burning.

My doctor said you've got two choices: Take insulin or lose weight.

My doctor ordered me to shut up, which will make every American happy.

My doctor has said that I must have a period of complete rest, but that I may be able to return to the production in the future and I am determined to return before the end of the run.

My doctor has advised me to take a break,

My doctor grabbed me by the wallet and said ""Cough!

My doctor decided it would be easier on me if I didn't wait. It was really easy. It only took six minutes and she was out.

My doctor at Sloan Kettering said if he could help me this way, he would. He told me to go to Germany. People are flying over there from all over the world.

More guys might have had it five to 10 years ago and didn't know it. Now a doctor comes around and pinpoints the injury, guys realize they have it and are having surgery because it's just been found.

My goal the day I had the surgery was to be ready for the playoffs ... and I'm close. Hopefully, the doctor will feel everything is fine and I'm going to be ready soon. That's what I want.

My father was career military. He was a veteran, he was a doctor of political science, he taught at West Point and Air Command Staff and lectured at the War College.

My father was a research doctor at the National Institutes of Health in the early 1980s, and you couldn't work in the field and not know about D. Carleton Gajdusek, who my father often mentioned.

My father was a doctor and I was born in our home, where he had his practice,

My father said I should become a doctor and do science in my spare time, which in retrospect might not have been a bad idea, but I wasn't interested in taking care of people's ills.

My family kind of freaked out because this is a big season, not only for me but for our team. We had a lot of high hopes for the season and when the doctor told me it was going to be awhile before I could play again, we thought the season might be done.

Maybe a child will come to this exhibit and say, you know what, I've never thought about being a doctor but it would be really cool.

Now you're going to look for the best doctor at the best price for your money in your area. It really begins to change the dynamic of the patient-doctor relationship.

People were once forced into psychiatric institutions. Going to a doctor was a very fearful experience for many people.

Personally, ... I would give a Nobel prize to the doctor who could eliminate hot flushes. It really is important.

On the other side of this debate they are very good at getting votes. And they are very good at being politicians, but I don't think they are worth a wit in the gynecological operating room! I don't want them in that operating room, telling a doctor what procedure to use for my daughter, or my niece.

One of the problems is finding a doctor to work for a non-profit and to come work in such an expensive area. We've lost some doctors because of how expensive it is here.

I was really short. I remember going to the doctor to see if there were injections I could take to be taller. But whenever we ran a lap, I wanted to run the fastest. I don't know why, on the wheel of fortune of personality traits, it stopped on ambition and hustle and drive.

I was supposed to have an MRI, but the doctor said it isn't a bone problem, it is a muscle problem. It wasn't as sore as I expected, so maybe something good is happening.

I would bet that Kyle's not ready to go this week. I'll wait on the doctors, but that one we're most assured of. What the time frame is beyond the week I couldn't say, but I can almost guarantee without being a doctor that Kyle won't go this week.

I would bet that Kyle is not ready to go this week; I'll wait on the doctors, but that one we're most assured of, ... What the time frame is beyond a week, I couldn't say. I can almost guarantee you -- without being a doctor -- that Kyle won't go this week.

I work seven days a week at a gas station. I wouldn't have seen a doctor if I hadn't been here.

If we had to start today, right now, the doctor would not clear him for contact. But we don't have to start today.

I got worked on at the tournament site and went home (to Orlando). The next day I went to a doctor in Orlando, ... They ran all these tests, gave me all this stuff and pretty much said, 'We don't know what to tell you.'