“Hopefully, this isn't as severe as some patients who have had this. They've narrowed down the problem quite a bit, but there's still a spectrum of things that could be going on in there.”
Kip Wells
“There is something not quite right about letting a patient dictate whether or not they take medicine. Are mental patients the people to whom we should be leaving the decisions?”
William Schultz
“The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease”
William Osler
“I am reminded of a colleague who reiterated "all my homosexual patients are quite sick" - to which I finally replied "so are all my heterosexual patients";”
Ernest van den Haag
“Tooth decay was a perennial national problem that meant a mouthful of silver for patients, and for dentists a pocketful of gold.”
Claudia Wallis
“A physician who treats himself has a fool for a patient.”
“He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients, no, three, I think / yes, it was three; I attended their funerals.”
Mark Twain
