"I am in a profession that has succeeded because of its ability to fix. If your problem is fixable, we know just what to do. But if it’s not? The fact that we have had no adequate answers to this quest..."
- Atul Gawande
"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."
- Elbert Hubbard
"What does Mrs Preston want to go abroad for?' asked Mr Leslie.'I think her doctor wanted her to, Father,' said Agnes.'Doctors!' said Mr Leslie, wiping the whole of the Royal College of Physicians off ..."
- Angela Thirkell
"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."
- M.K. Gilher
"...Why is it, that from the moment you enter medical school to the moment you retire, that the only disorder you will ever diagnosis with a physics book - is obesity? This is biology folks, it's endoc..."
- Gary Taubes
"I wonder how Japan's futuristic robot doctors will treat the worst and most widespread disease humanity already has - artificially lowered IQ. Making people stupider makes them buy more stuff – so “Ho..."
- Will Advise
"There is no such thing as an infallible doctor."
- Edward E. Rosenbaum
"My girl was mad and I loved her. Upon a night, she read my poetry; and kissing me madly she cried, ‘You are a genius, my love!’ To which I replied, ‘My girl,’ whispering, ‘Every doctor in this land wi..."
- Roman Payne
"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."
- Jane Wilson-Howarth
"What art thou Faustus, but a man condemned to die?"
- Christopher Marlowe