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“Pontellier," said the Doctor, after a moment's reflection, "let your wife alone for a while. Don't bother her, and don't let her bother you. Woman, my dear friend, is a very peculiar and delicate organism—a sensitive and highly organized woman, such as I know Mrs. Pontellier to be, is especially peculiar. It would require an inspired psychologist to deal successfully with them. And when ordinary fellows like you and me attempt to cope with their idiosyncrasies the result is bungling. Most women are moody and whimsical. This is some passing whim of your wife, due to some cause or causes which you and I needn't try to fathom. But it will pass happily over, especially if you let her alone. Send her around to see me.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

“The world is full of doctors,
but healers are rare.
The world is full of pills,
but medicine is rare.
The world is full of stethoscopes,
but listening is rare.
And when someone’s in misery,
I have no doubt you’ll appear.”
― Abhijit Naskar, See No Gender

“Doctor: Have you considered that your health issues are in your head and you may need to see a psychiatrist? Patient (Silently): Have you considered that you are an incompetent that is in the wrong profession?”
― Steven Magee

“Many doctors want you to be a regular visitor to their offices so they can bill your medical insurance.”
― Steven Magee

“If I were a doctor or nurse and I showed up to the hospital and found they had no sterile personal protective equipment (PPE), I would go to the staff room and wait until the health and safety issues were resolved.”
― Steven Magee

“here Fate says: 'And Youth, what is thy ambition?' And the boy answers: 'I would be a healer. I would take the broken bodies of men and mend them.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“The mailman delivered mail in the rain
The cashier got yelled at on her birthday
The doctor watched a person die
The heroes we know about but don’t appreciate enough”
― Lidia Longorio, Hey Humanity

“One day Samuel strained his back lifting a bale of hay, and it hurt his feelings more than his back, for he could not imagine a life in which Sam Hamilton was not privileged to lift a bale of hay. He felt insulted by his back, almost as he would have been if one of his children had been dishonest.
In King City, Dr. Tilson felt him over. The doctor grew more testy with his overworked years.
"You sprained your back."
"That I did," said Samuel.
"And you drove all the way in to have me tell you that you sprained your back and charge you two dollars?"
"Here's your two dollars."
"And you want to know what to do about it?"
"Sure I do."
"Don't sprain it any more. Now tak your money back. You're not a fool, Samuel, unless you're getting childish."
"But it hurts."
"Of course it hurts. How would you know it was strained if it didn't?"
Samuel laughed. "You're good for me," he said. "You're more than two dollars good for me. Keep the money."
The doctor looked closely at him. "I think you're telling the truth, Samuel. I'll keep the money.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“MEDICINE means Mercy â€� Empathy â€� Dare â€� Integrity â€� Care â€� Ingenuity â€� and Ethics.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“If your doctor relies on blood and urine tests to diagnose and treat you, then you could be in serious trouble.”
― Steven Magee

“Hva ville det egentlig si Ã¥ være sinnssyk? Man kunne jo glatt vekk kalle hinannens særegenheter og mer eller mindre brysomme eiendommeligheter for sinnssykdom. Hvem kun hindre det? Én hadde aversjon for katter, en annen var ikke til Ã¥ bevege til Ã¥ foreta seg noe pÃ¥ en mandag, en tredje gikk ikke i seng uten først Ã¥ sette skoene baklengs foran sovekammerdøren, en fjerde trodde pÃ¥ drømmer og lot seg pÃ¥virke av dem, en femte hadde talt med hedenfarne Ã¥nder og visste at han efter døden skulle komme i den niende himmel, en sjette hadde hatt en Ã¥penbaring av apostelen Petrus, og av ham fÃ¥tt malt til Ã¥ helbrede sykdommer ved hÃ¥ndspÃ¥leggelse, en syvende ble søvnløs av gremmelse over ikke Ã¥ kunne fÃ¥ sitt arbeide til, en Ã¥ttende følte seg sÃ¥ uskikket for jordelivet at han foretrakk godvillig Ã¥ absentere seg, en niende hadde dÃ¥rlig mave, og var som følge av det umulig Ã¥ omgÃ¥es, en tiende drakk og foretok seg i fullskap de merkeligste og avskyeligste ting, en ellevte hadde motbydelighet for det annet kjønn, en tolvte kunne ikke tÃ¥le synet av barn, en trettende fikk stivkrampe nÃ¥r han kom i nærheten av rotter og mus, en fjortende var stormannsgal og bilte seg inn at han visste til punkt og prikke hva som skulle kalles sinnssykdom og hva ikke, og sÃ¥ fremdeles i det uendelige.”
― Amalie Skram, PÃ¥ St. Jørgen

“Once during a case of stomach flu, I needed to tell the 
doctor I’d been vomiting, but instead of shifting into the imperfect, I 
used the present je vomis (I’m vomiting), then stood up from his desk and mimicked a fake retch. The doctor in question pushed back from 
his seat thinking it was the real thing, only for me to fake retch again 
then say “dans le passéâ€� (in the past), moving my arm as way to signal 
time past. He quickly wrote me a prescription and handed it to me at 
arm’s length. â€�”
― John von Sothen, Monsieur Mediocre: One American Learns the High Art of Being Everyday French

“When I worked in high altitude astronomy, I was never screened annually by a doctor that was expert in low level radiation sickness (LLRS) and high altitude disease (HAD).”
― Steven Magee

“Medicine is not about the doctors, it is about the patients.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Data diet is going to be reality in future. Your doctor will prescribe you that how much amount of data you can use (e.g 500 megabytes) to maintain your mental health.”
― Nitya Prakash

“An apple a day is nearly a thousand rupees a month. Seeing a doctor is often cheaper.”
― Nitya Prakash

“Now do you want me to give you something that’ll help you, or would you rather move into the outhouse and try to shoe horses there?”
― Karen A. Wyle, What Heals the Heart

“He had brought his bone saw in its leather case. And his white linen smock, the one he used to save his clothes when he had dirty work in store, and would have Li Chang wash and bleach after. An amputation would be the dirtiest work there was. He remembered the smocks the surgeons wore, layer on layer of red, dried blood darker under fresh red splashes, with the occasional white splinter of bone.

Joshua prayed as he rode, prayed hard and desperately, prayed that the smock in his bag would be clean and white when he turned homeward.”
― Karen A. Wyle, What Heals the Heart

“He kept eating, with a stubborn determination like something in a dream, until he heard the door open and close again. There was still some soup in the bowl. He set it on the floor for Major, let his head fall into his hands, and sobbed like a broken-hearted child. Or like a young man, barely more than a boy, waking up with only half a leg.”
― Karen A. Wyle, What Heals the Heart

“Venía a decirles que los necesitaba y que nunca más quería necesitarlos. [...] Buscando eludir sus razones mi cabeza migró hacia los aspectos más discutibles y nostálgicos, los más incoherentes, los más inexplicables en un médico de su prosapia.”
― Lina Meruane, Sangre en el ojo

“If your doctor does not understand ‘Invisible Diseasesâ€�, you should change to a doctor that does.”
― Steven Magee

“When the patient is a better doctor than the doctors, you know that there is something funky going on in modern healthcare.”
― Steven Magee

“The best medicine any doctor could recommend is-
A stroll in the park,
It’s not only good for the mind,
But it’s also good for the heart”
― Charmaine J. Forde

“Health has no price. The doctor has.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“My name is Brett Cordes and I just want to let you know that I'm standing here right now because you saved my life 12 years ago." There. Was. Silence. "I know who you are," his voice quivered just above a whisper as he walked over to the bookshelf and grabbed my father's letter. "Your father wrote me this letter about a year after you finished treatment, and I've kept it ever since and show it to all my residents and fellows ...to show them why we do what we do.”
― Brett M. Cordes, Cancer Is for Older People: How Young Minds Beat an Old Disease

“Two years ago, Rhys Winterborne had hired Dr. Garrett Gibson to serve on the clinic's medical staff, despite people's suspicions that a woman wasn't suited for such a demanding profession. Garrett had dedicated herself to proving them wrong, and in a short time had distinguished herself as an unusually skilled and talented surgeon as well as physician. She was still regarded as something of a novelty, of course, but her reputation and practice had grown steadily.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Chasing Cassandra

“And so, just as the humanity of our cadavers asserts itself in nail polish and tattoos, the inverse of humanity emerges in the body's utter lack of response to profound wounds.”
― Christine Montross, Body of Work: Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy Lab

“Your preventable sickness has been turned into a prescription drug profit center.”
― Steven Magee

“This is a list of men who had stupid sex in stupid places.”
― Sydney Stern, The Scandal Clause: Can $700,000 Buy a Life?

“Treatment of sickness is a part of Medicine, but it's not the whole of Medicine.”
― Abhijit Naskar