#oct

I think if I took therapy, the doctor would quit. He'd just pick up the couch and walk out of the room. ↗

— Don Rickles

#doctor #i #i think #just #out

We also have to make sure our children know the history of women. Tell them the rotten truth: It wasn't always possible for women to become doctors or managers or insurance people. Let them be armed with a true picture of the way we want it to be. ↗

— Anne Roiphe

#always #armed #become #children #doctors

The report of this made me exceedingly angry, for I could not see why information which a middle-class woman could get from her doctor should be withheld from a poorer woman who might need it far more. ↗

— Dora Russell

#could #doctor #exceedingly #far #get

Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#humor #medicine #humor

Two young doctors - one from Harvard and the other from Dartmouth - invited me to go to Mecca in my husband's stead. And that is what helped put me back on track. ↗

— Betty Shabazz

#doctors #go #harvard #helped #husband

Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#cannot #created #destroyed #doctor #passion

Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution the time will come when medicine will organize itself into an undercover dictatorship. To restrict the art of healing to doctors and deny equal privileges to others will constitute the Bastille of medical science. All such laws are un-American and despotic. ↗

— Benjamin Rush

#doctors #health-care #liberty #medical-freedom #art

It's hard for women to talk about these things, and for the doctors to really talk about it too, and to even have the knowledge of what's going on. That's why I'm doing this and urging women to speak out and talk to their doctors frankly. ↗

— Cybill Shepherd

#doctors #doing #even #frankly #going

The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to. ↗

— Dodie Smith

#escape #family #hearts #innermost #never

As I laid in the hospital bed I started thinking that I had a show to do. I was hoping the Doctor would put me together so I could do the show. ↗

— Ben Vereen

#could #doctor #had #hoping #hospital