Doctor Quotes

When my husband turned 40, I was obsessed. 'Has he had his medical checkup?' He needed to go to the doctor; he needed to go to the dentist. Any little cough, I was really on him. Then he turned 40, and I thought, 'Maybe that's why I've been so obsessed with his health!'

~ Cate Blanchett

Prior to my call to the Twelve, I served as a medical doctor and surgeon.

~ Russell M. Nelson

My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.

~ Walter Matthau

When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays.

~ Henny Youngman

I went to the doctor and he said I had acute appendicitis, and I said compared to who?

~ Jay London

People say that the most expensive piece of medical equipment is the doctor's pen. It's not that we make all the money. It's that we order all the money.

~ Atul Gawande

Remember, I'm a doctor's daughter. So obviously I'm interested in all medical things.

~ Nancy Reagan

We can't let people down when they can't get any medical care, when they're sick and don't have money to go to a doctor. You help them.

~ Donald Trump

As a medical doctor and cardiac surgeon, I had the responsibility of performing open-heart surgery on President Spencer W. Kimball in 1972, when he was Acting President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.

~ Russell M. Nelson

If you went to Harvard Medical School, chances are you'll be a doctor at some place. There's a career trajectory. Acting, there's nothing. It's constantly trying to procure jobs - it's very disconcerting.

~ Jesse Eisenberg

I went to the University of Maryland for a year and was considering maybe, you know, being a medical doctor but decided my other interest was maybe flying airplanes in the Navy and just kind of changed my mind and changed schools and changed majors and decided to focus a hundred percent on that.

~ Scott Kelly

What we look for are people that are technically competent. You need a background in a scientific field, whether it's as a scientist, an engineer, medical doctor, or, you know, a person that's in the military with some kind of technical background.

~ Scott Kelly

My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.

~ Natalie Portman

I always wanted to be a medical doctor, and I never thought of business.

~ Jochen Zeitz

Writing is very much an emotional process; it requires you to be very in touch with your feelings. That is the opposite of what you're taught as a medical doctor. We're supposed to be detached and logical. Maybe because I started off as a writer and then became a doctor, I'm able to integrate those two.

~ Tess Gerritsen

I think I wanted to be a doctor. In Iran, the engineering and medical professions are worshipped. My father very much wanted me to be a doctor. I was certainly eager to please as a young man - as a kid, I should say.

~ Dara Khosrowshahi

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?

~ Busy Philipps

I have a zombie apocalypse kit at my house. I've got freeze dried food, I've got a real deal medical kit, like, a doctor could perform a surgery with this medical kit. I got all kinds of everything.

~ Joel Madden

Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?

~ Garry Trudeau

Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.

~ Peter Shaffer

I'm 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down - at least he did until he dropped dead.

~ Cesar Romero

Any doctor will admit that any drug can have side effects, and that writing a prescription involves weighing the potential benefits against the risks.

~ Mark Udall

A pregnant woman facing the most dire circumstances must be able to count on her doctor to do what is medically necessary to protect her from serious physical harm.

~ Barbara Mikulski

Honestly, being a doctor could make you more close minded than regular people.

~ Alex Chiu

I have an obligation to use what I know to try to bring real, usable medical science to every doctor and bedside and patient.

~ Patrick Soon-Shiong

I'm a medical doctor and a biomedical scientist.

~ Steven Hatfill

Yet it looks as if the thing we use to solve our problems with is the source of our problems. It's like going to the doctor and having him make you ill. In fact, in 20% of medical cases we do apparently have that going on. But in the case of thought, its far over 20%.

~ David Bohm

You know, I look to myself mainly as a creative writer all my life and a medical doctor.

~ Nawal El-Saadawi

Flying back from New York, the flight attendant said 'God, I wished you were here yesterday, we had a stroke on the plane. I said, if I have a stroke on a plane, I hope the pretend doctor isn't the one on the plane. I want a real doctor.

~ Anthony Edwards

Yes. I'm a doctor, an epidemiologist, and lots of my professional colleagues flip back and forth between industry and medical roles. I know them; they are not bad people. But it is possible for good people in bad systems to do things that inflict enormous harm.

~ Ben Goldacre

Medical liability reform is not a Republican or Democrat issue or even a doctor versus lawyer issue. It is a patient issue.

~ John Ensign

Whether it's possible or not, being a doctor, you take an oath. To care for your patient, not to kill them. You take an oath to do things that are proper in the medical world. Not to administer something outside of a hospital setting that's not even your area.

~ Jermaine Jackson

I have many times thought I did the wrong thing, but the reason was not to be a medical doctor - it was just to have the information. But then, maybe I was wrong, I don't know.

~ Lennart Nilsson

I love 'E.R.' and I'm not ashamed to admit it. It makes me know I did not waste my life after all by not becoming a medical doctor.

~ Ellen Gilchrist

One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

~ Alice James

I might have been just as happy to have been a practicing primary-care doctor. But as a medical student, I had interacted with patients suffering from neurodegeneration or acute clinical schizophrenia. It left an indelible mark on my memory.

~ James Rothman

The cardiac calls require medical intervention. So an ambulance for a cardiac call requires a doctor, a ward boy and medical equipment.

~ Shaffi Mather

When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.

~ Enid Bagnold

Being a regular in a television series, for me - if I wanted to be a cop, I woulda went to cop school. If I wanted to be a doctor, I would've gone to medical school. You get trapped in your normal episodic television shows, basically doing the same thing.

~ Michael Hogan

I found out that colonels can stay until they drop dead or get a walker and being a critical medical specialty as an Army trained emergency room doctor, I could stay until age 67.

~ Gerald Griffin