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physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paid." | |
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Jean de la Bruyere
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| "I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica* could be sunk to
the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind and all the
worse for the fishes. *Substances used in the composition of medical
remedies." | |
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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| "I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the
tapes." | |
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Richard Milhouse Nixon
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| "If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make
something out of you." | |
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Muhammad Ali
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| "Medicine is a science of uncertainty And an art of
probability." | |
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William Osler
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| "Medicine is an art, and attends to the nature and constitution of
the patient, and has principles of action And reason in each case." | |
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Plato
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| "Nearly all men die of their remedies, and not of their
illnesses." | |
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Jean Baptiste Moliére
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| "PHRENOLOGY, n. The science of picking the pocket through the scalp.
It consists in locating and exploiting the organ that one is a dupe
with." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "Surgeons must be very careful, When they take the knife!, Underneath
their fine incisions, Stirs the Culprit ? Life!" | |
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Emily Dickinson
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| "The best of all medicines are rest and fasting." | |
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Benjamin Franklin
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| "The best of healers is good cheer." | |
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Pindar
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| "The purpose of medicine is to prevent significant disease, to
decrease pain and to postpone death... Technology has to support these
goals-if not, it may even be counterproductive." | |
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Dr. Joel J. Nobel
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| "To array a man"s will against his sickness is the supreme art of
medicine." | |
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Henry Ward Beecher
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| "What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to
bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers
for a cause that is ignoble?" | |
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Dr. Benjamin Spock
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