Quotes and Sayings about Doctors & Medicine

Things happen. We can't explain them, we can't control them, but they do happen. Miracles do happen in medicine. They happen everyday, just not always when we need them to happen.

What would you prefer - a doctor who holds your hand while you die, or one who ignores you while you get better? I suppose it would particularly suck to have a doctor, who ignores you while you die.

Sometimes, the cure is a little taste of the disease. The difference between medicine and poison sometimes is only dosage.

I didn't become a doctor because I wanted to be god. I became a doctor because I wanted to save lives.

Sarkov: "That's doctor-patient privilege."
Juan: "I thought you were a scientist."
Sarkov: "It's all the same. We all wear white coats and have trouble with eye contact."

You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten.

Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.

Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur.

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.

Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.

No medicine cures what happiness cannot.

Save one life, and you're a hero. Save 100 lives, well then, you're a nurse.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

There are angels by the way. They don't have wings and live in clouds. They wear nurse's uniforms and work hard to pay the rent on their houses. Some work for charities because they can't look the other way. Some have four legs and bark. But whatever they look like, they all save lives.

It would not be possible to praise nurses too highly.

Sometimes I inspire my patients; more often they inspire me.

May your scrubs be comfy, your coffee be strong, and your Monday be short.

Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.

Nurse: just a word to describe a person strong enough to tolerate anything and soft enough to understand anyone.

Nurses - everyday heroes. Compassionate and strong, they are always there to help and support us. Their relentless dedication and unconditional care deserve our deepest gratitude. They are our beacons of hope in times of darkness and deserve recognition for their invaluable work.

Nurses are true superheroes! They juggle medications and never miss a vein. Sometimes, they even find time to dance with their patients. If you ever encounter a nurse, give them a hug, because they are the real rockstars in the hospital!

Who's not gonna take the vaccine because they think it might be dangerous? Raise your hands! Now take that hand and slap yourself in the f*cking face!

Klepper: "What does that mean, 'Their DNA is wiped out'?"
Anti-Vax protester: "Like, their immunity is getting wiped out."
Klepper: "Okay, 'cause COVID wiped out 600.000 DNAs."
Anti-Vax protester: "Yes, of course!"

Day 619. Still waiting for the microchips they vaccinated into me to take my life or my free will.

Peralta: "I'm just gonna grab a healthy breakfast."
Holt: "Are those gummybears wrapped in a fruit roll-up?"
Peralta: "Breakfast-Burrito... but, yeah."
Holt: "I pity your dentist."
Peralta: "Joke's on you, I don't have a dentist!"

You don't have to brush all your teeth - just the ones you intend on keeping.

Randall: "I thought you said he was a doctor?"
Dinkle: "Dentists are doctors!"
Randall: "Yeah, and birds are books. What a loser."

Nobody should have to go to work thinking, "Oh, this is the place that I might die today." That's what a hospital is for. An office is for not dying.

I love hospitals. If I could spend the rest of my life in a hospital, I would. Because when you're in a hospital, you have zero responsibilities.

We're hospitals, killing people should be high up on the list of things we do not do.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

Doesn't matter how tough we are. Trauma always leaves a scar. It follows us home, it changes our lives, Trauma messes everybody up, but maybe that's the point: All the pain and the fear and the crap. Maybe going through all of that is what keeps us moving forward, it's what pushes us. Maybe we have to get a little messed up, before we can step up.

We all remember the bed time stories of our childhoods. The shoe fits Cinderella, the frog turns into a prince, sleeping beauty is awakened with a kiss. Once upon a time and then they lived happily ever after. Fairy tales, the stuff of dreams. The problem is, fairy tales don't come true. It's the other stories, the ones that begin with dark and stormy nights and end in the unspeakable. It's the nightmares that always seem to become reality. The person that invented the phrase "Happily ever after" should have his ass kicked, so hard!

The body is a slave to its impulses.

Even miracles take a little time.

If the wonder's gone when the truth is known, there never was any wonder.

I'm sorry, but the fact that the sexual pleasure center of your cerebral cortex has been over-stimulated by spirochetes is a poor basis for a relationship.

I was in the desert. But if visiting the sands were a crime, the line of sinners would be longer than the Nile.

Egyptians invented modern navigation. There's not a lot of landmarks in the desert. So they came up with a way to get about using the sun and the stars. It's bloody genius, isn't it?

It's a beautiful day to save lives. Let's have some fun.

Patient: "This isn't over, Dr. F*ckov!"
Sarkov: "Dr. F*ckov. Never heard that one before. Very original! Why don't you try Dr. Suckov?"

How about a copy of the New York Times? It's like reading the internet, but on paper!

Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it.