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When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. -
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease. -
John Donne
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The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find. -
Denis Diderot
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Surgeons must be very careful. When they take the knife!, underneath their fine incisions, stirs the Culprit -- Life! -
Emily Dickinson
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The doctor found, when she was dead, her last disorder mortal. -
Oliver Goldsmith
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Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too. -
Anton Chekhov
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The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy -- to heal, as it is termed. -
Samuel Hahnemann
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The doctor knows what his trained eyes see -- and he says it's the last of the ninth for me. So one more thing while the clouds loom dark and then I must leave this noisy park. -
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I asked [my doctors] if I'd be able to play singles tennis and they said I could. That made me very happy since I haven't played in five years. -
Walter Cronkite
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Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few doctors, either male or female, as possible. For, mark you, the women have made no improvement -- they have only tried to be ''men'' and they have only succeeded in being third-rate men. -
Florence Nightingale
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If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; if he kills, the earth hides it. -
Scottish Proverb
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The superior doctor prevents sickness; The mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; The inferior doctor treats actual sickness; -
Chinese Proverb
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For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill. -
Marcel Proust
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Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician. -
Matthew Prior
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Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest, but that all seek the good of their patients? For we have agreed that a physician strictly so called, is a ruler of bodies, and not a maker of money, have we not? -
Plato
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The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine. -
Sir William Osler
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