Doctor Competence Quotes

It's a poor doctor who can't cure one disease without giving you another.

Doctors are mostly impostors. The older a doctor is and the more venerated he is, the more he must pretend to know everything. Of course, they grow worse with time. Always look for a doctor who is hated by the best doctors. Always seek out a bright young doctor before he comes down with nonsense.

If you are that person, you are more likely to believe that God cured you, this invisible force, creator of the universe, cured you, than that you had three idiotic doctors diagnose you. ... I taught physics to pre-med students who became doctors. Not all of them are smart, I assure you.

There is a great difference between a good physician and a bad one; yet very little between a good one and none at all.

I don't know if there is some psychological thing of wanting to know where your doctor got his degree from before he comes into the medical room.

Fifty percent of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class - Hope your surgery went well!

Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.

Townsend shrugged. 'With all due respect to the good doctor, I highly suspect he's a moron.

And then they sign an affidavit swearing that she's not in a vegetative stage. I'll tell you. That's a doctor you really want; they can look at a picture and make a diagnosis.

Doctors can do almost anything nowadays, can't they, unless they kill you while they're trying to cure you.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

I don't trust doctors. It's not to say there ain't some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn't trust 'em at all.

The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.