When the pain is great enough, we will let anyone be doctor.
I was diagnosed with ADHD twice. I didn't believe the first doctor who told me, and I had a whole theory that ADHD was just something they invented to make you pay for medicine, but then the second doctor told me I had it.
A lot of times I talk to people, they say they don't trust the doctors, they don't trust the hospitals and that kind of stuff. Well, if you go to the hospital, you've got to trust somebody.
Our ad campaign with Pfizer is educational. Lipitor is the most widely prescribed drug in the country. For every prescription, there is a doctor writing it. It's a huge vote of confidence.
I'm a veteran. If I go into the V.A. hospital in Tennessee, I want to know that the procedures they're doing to me are being done properly. That is not unreasonable.
Taking a lady's hand gives her confidence in her physician.
It's no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution.
The physician is happy in the attachment of the families in which he practices. All think he has saved one of them, and he finds himself everywhere a welcome guest, a home in every house.
I think people need to be comfortable questioning the authority of a doctor.
You should see the eyes of some of those children when I say to them we're going to have to open your head up and take out this tumor. They're not happy about it, believe me. And they don't like me very much at that point. But later on, they love me.
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.
I can't understand why most people believe in medicine and don't believe in art, without questioning either.
Our reliance on the physician is a kind of despair of ourselves.
The account he gives of nurses beats everything that even I know of. This young prophet says that they are all drunkards, without exception, Sisters and all, and that there are but two whom the surgeon can trust to give the patients their medicines.
I really like my doctors. Some of them I love. I trust them.
It is fundamental when you are a doctor for a good doctor-patient relationship.
I think the last thing I want to do is switch doctors.
Walk away from medical professionals who dismiss your concerns, and don't quit searching until you find someone who will truly partner with you to find the answers you deserve.
I distrust all television doctors.
You look at a surgeon as you would a secular priest, almost, if it's your child, if it's your sister on the operating table. That was an idea that very much has interested me and I've wanted to explore for some time.
There's a lot of arrogance in the medical community. There are good, reliable websites you can go to for information - the Mayo Clinic, the Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins.
There are 20,000 Muslim physicians in the United States, Americans putting their lives in the hands of Muslims every day.
People used to trust their doctor. They went to an expert. Now people have new ideas and are thinking for themselves. That's a very important change in our collective psychology.
It's in poor taste to question anyone's illness diagnosed through specific testing by their doctor.
