"Cure the disease and kill the patient."

Bacon, Francis on doctors
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"Never ask a surgeon whether you need an operation. "

Kocher, Gerhard on doctors
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"Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing."

Voltaire on doctors
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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."

Unknown, Source on doctors   

"The difference between an itch and an allergy is about one hundred bucks."

Unknown, Source on doctors   

"Doctors don't know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in spirit."

Saroyan, William on doctors   

"If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; if he kills, the earth hides it."

Proverb, Scottish on doctors   

"Physician, heal thyself."

Proverb, Hebrew on doctors   

"Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician."

Prior, Matthew on doctors   

"It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying."

Horder, Thomas on doctors
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"Life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment treacherous, judgment difficult."

Hippocrates on doctors
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"The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him."

Freud, Sigmund on doctors
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"The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes."

Erasmus, Desiderius on doctors
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"I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease."

Donne, John on doctors   

"Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too."

Chekhov, Anton on doctors
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"Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died."

Bombeck, Erma on doctors
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"One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they are uncertain about the value of the actual lives of the patients they are treating. This is not because they are callous or personally inhuman: it is because they live in and accept a society which is incapable of knowing what a human life is worth."

Berger, John on doctors
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"The relation nurse/doctor is even more complex than the relation patient/doctor. "

Kocher, Gerhard on doctors