#doc

I don't believe in technological determinism, especially not in biology and medicine. We have strong laws to keep doctors from monkeying around with humans that will remain in place. It's simply not true that everything that is technologically possible gets done. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#believe #biology #determinism #doctors #done

How can a doctor judge a woman's sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release? Even the sick ones know it is useless to say anything, for the answer will be that it is their imagination. ↗

— Nellie Bly

#anything #bidding #doctor #even #good

I always made a point of telling the doctors I was sane, and asking to be released, but the more I endeavored to assure them of my sanity, the more they doubted it. ↗

— Nellie Bly

#asking #assure #doctors #doubted #endeavored

In our short walks we passed the kitchen where food was prepared for the nurses and doctors. There we got glimpses of melons and grapes and all kinds of fruits, beautiful white bread and nice meats, and the hungry feeling would be increased tenfold. ↗

— Nellie Bly

#bread #doctors #feeling #food #fruits

Flying back from New York, the flight attendant said 'God, I wished you were here yesterday, we had a stroke on the plane. I said, if I have a stroke on a plane, I hope the pretend doctor isn't the one on the plane. I want a real doctor. ↗

— Anthony Edwards

#attendant #back #doctor #flight #flying

I'd like people to know that you can head off kidney disease, maybe prevent a transplant or stop the disease from progressing after detection by doing a simple urine test in the doctor's office. ↗

— Sean Elliott

#detection #disease #doctor #doing #head

We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#because #doctrine #eighties #had #little

Yet it looks as if the thing we use to solve our problems with is the source of our problems. It's like going to the doctor and having him make you ill. In fact, in 20% of medical cases we do apparently have that going on. But in the case of thought, its far over 20%. ↗

— David Bohm

#case #cases #doctor #fact #far

Ronald Reagan's well documented final battles with Alzheimer's disease were fought with the same conviction and courage that his many public battles were fought. ↗

— William L. Jenkins

#battles #conviction #courage #disease #documented

To his doctrines I owe my great and glorious ambition for the sex to which I proudly belong and whose independence I shall defend until my dying day. ↗

— Rosa Bonheur

#belong #day #defend #doctrines #dying