Are we all just Dark Age doctors, swearing by our leeches? We crave a greater science. We want to be proven wrong..
My mother used to tell this corny story about how the doctor smacked me on the behind when I was born and I thought it was applause, and I have been ….
Dammit, Jim. I'm a Guardian, not a doctor..
My sister is an ER doctor and my brother is a teacher..
My mother thought I would have a hard life as a painter. My father thought the highest thing a person could be was an architect. Below that was a pai….
Many people nowadays who discover that they have a major symptom, whether psychological or physical, begin to study it. They get drawn very deeply in….
To the sick the doctors wisely recommend a change of air and scenery..
I'm now convinced that I'm a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I'm like, 'Well, that's your spleen.'.
The government has departments to deal with the special interest groups that make themselves heard and felt. A Department of Agriculture cares for th….
The street to my left was backed up with traffic and I watched the people waiting patiently in the cars. There was almost always a man and a women, s….
We approach people the same way we approach our cars. We take the poor kid to a doctor and ask, "What's wrong with him, how much will it cost, and wh….
A doctor who doesn't say too many foolish things is a patient half-cured..
My father, who grew up picking olives on the Greek island of Lesbos, was a doctor. So my family expected me to become a physician..
I think it's fair to say that, yeah, I'm playing Doctor Strange, I get there..
Imagine a world in which medicine was oriented toward healing rather than disease, where doctors believed in the natural healing capacity of human be….
Facts do not find their way into the world in which our beliefs reside; they did not produce our beliefs, they do not destroy them; they may inflict ….
I cannot prevent anyone from getting angry, or mad, or frustrated. I can only hope that they'll turn that anger and frustration and madness into some….
I questioned her further, and eventually got to talk to her doctor. And her doctor sort of shook his head and he said, I have examined her for throat….
I'd call it a new version of voodoo economics, but I'm afraid that would give witch doctors a bad name..
I think early on I knew what I was going to do and it was based a lot on familiarity but it was also because I didn't have a lot of skills. There was….
Isn't it a shame military doctors couldn't be as good as military sunglasses?.