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"Cure the disease and kill the patient."

Bacon, Francis on doctors
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"When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much."

Bagnold, Enid on doctors
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"Nature, time and patience are the three great physicians."

Bohn, H. G. on doctors
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"Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died."

Bombeck, Erma on doctors
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"Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on doctors
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"A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war."

Butler, Samuel on doctors    Share

"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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"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."

Cronkite, Walter on doctors    Share

"Surgeons must be very careful. When they take the knife!, underneath their fine incisions, stirs the Culprit -- Life!"

Dickinson, Emily on doctors
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"The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find."

Diderot, Denis on doctors    Share

"I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease."

Donne, John on doctors    Share

"When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge."

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan on doctors    Share

"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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"The practice of medicine is a thinker's art, the practice of surgery a plumber s."

Fisher, Martin H. on doctors    Share

"God heals and the doctor takes the fee."

Franklin, Benjamin 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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"Employment is nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness."

Galen, Claudius on doctors    Share

"The doctor found, when she was dead, her last disorder mortal."

Goldsmith, Oliver on doctors    Share

"The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy -- to heal, as it is termed."

Hahnemann, Samuel on doctors    Share

"I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation. A doctor who cannot take out your appendix properly will recommend you to a doctor who will be unable to remove your tonsils with success."

Hemingway, Ernest on doctors    Share

"Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer."

Herbert, George on doctors    Share

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"Life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment treacherous, judgment difficult."

Hippocrates on doctors
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"Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm."

Hippocrates on doctors
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"What I call a good patient is one who, having found a good physician, sticks to him till he dies."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on doctors
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"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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"I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience."

James, Alice on doctors    Share

"My doctor gave me six months to live but when I couldn't pay the bill, he gave me six months more."

Matthau, Walter on doctors    Share

"I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity."

Miller, Jonathan on doctors    Share

"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."

Nightingale, Florence on doctors    Share

"The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine."

Osler, Sir William on doctors    Share

"Time is generally the best doctor."

Ovid on doctors    Share

"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?"

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

Prior, Matthew on doctors    Share

"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."

Proust, Marcel on doctors    Share

"The superior doctor prevents sickness; The mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; The inferior doctor treats actual sickness;"

Proverb, Chinese on doctors
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"A surgeon should be young a physician old."

Proverb, French on doctors    Share

"Physician, heal thyself."

Proverb, Hebrew on doctors    Share

"Every invalid is a physician."

Proverb, Irish on doctors    Share

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