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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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If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; if he kills, the earth hides it.
-Scottish Proverb
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A surgeon should be young a physician old.
-Proverb
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Physician, heal thyself.
-Proverb
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Every invalid is a physician.
-Proverb
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A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist; he is either, like the surgeon, a craftsman, or, like the physician and the psychologist, an artist.
-W. H. Auden
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Cure the disease and kill the patient.
-Francis Bacon
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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.
-John Berger
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Physician -- One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.
-Ambrose Bierce
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Nature, time and patience are the three great physicians.
-H. G. Bohn
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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-Erma Bombeck
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Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paid.
-Jean De La Bruyere
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A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
-Samuel Butler
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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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I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood. On why he gave up medicine
-Michael Crichton
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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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The two best physicians of them all -- Dr. Laughter and Dr. Sleep.
-Gregory Dean Jr.
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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 best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.
-Denis Diderot
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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
-John Donne
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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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The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.
-Desiderius Erasmus
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Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.
-Dorothy Canfield Fisher
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The practice of medicine is a thinker's art, the practice of surgery a plumber s.
-Martin H. Fisher
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Books about Doctors
