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"Nobody supposes that doctors are less virtuous than judges; but a judge whose salary and reputation depended on whether the verdict was for plaintiff or defendant, prosecutor or prisoner, would be as little trusted as a general in the pay of the enemy."
"Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away."
"Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on."
"Let no one suppose that the words doctor and patient can disguise from the parties the fact that they are employer and employee."
"There's no doctor in a white coat that's going to save you, or a system or a pill - it's always going to be you and the choices that you make."
"The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning."
"Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the earliest records of every culture on earth. It is hard to think of a more dependable or enduring occupation, harder still to imagine any future events leading to its extinction."
"You must be born for your physician, otherwise you are bound to perish because of your physician."
"Seeing twilight fall should be prescribed by doctors."
"I went to the doctor and he said I had acute appendicitis, and I said compared to who?"
"I wished to God the doctor had handed me a pamphlet that said, 'Hey, sorry about the autism, but here's a step-by-step list on what to do next.' But doctors don't do that. They say 'sorry' and move you along."
"We’ve all heard the expression, ‘An apple a day keeps the doctor away.’ Well, I’ve got a good question for you: What if it’s true? Wouldn’t that be easy to do-to eat an apple a day? Here’s the problem: It’s also easy not to do."
"I was obsessed with romance. When I was in high school, I saw 'Doctor Zhivago' every day from the day it opened until the day it left the theater."
"I don't know if there is some psychological thing of wanting to know where your doctor got his degree from before he comes into the medical room."
"Most of the doctors in the Tunisian administration, especially those in country districts, contracted typhus and approximately one third of them died of it"
"When I started Doctor Who Steven Moffat said, "That's it for the rest of your life." I'll be Doctor to a whole generation when they're 50."
"No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends."
"Who ever saw a doctor use the prescription of his colleague without cutting out or adding something?"
"There's a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!"
"I say get an education. Become an electrician, a mechanic, a doctor, a lawyer, anything but a fighter. In this trade, it's the managers that make the money and last the longest."
