Doctors Quotes

“I'm not feeling very well. I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course.”

“I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away.”

"The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease."

William Osler

"The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases."

William Osler

"One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine."

William Osler

"Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing."

Voltaire

"The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it."

Maimonides

"God heals, and the doctor takes the fees."

"He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope."

Galen

"Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress."

Anton Chekhov

"There are men and classes of men that stand above the common herd: the soldier, the sailor and the shepherd not infrequently; the artist rarely; rarer still, the clergyman; the physician almost as a rule."

Robert Louis Stevenson

"Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought."

William Osler

"The physician himself, if sick, actually calls in another physician."

"I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places."

Henny Youngman

“Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.”

Erma Bombeck

“I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.”

Henny Youngman