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"I don't have a drink problem. But if that was the case and doctors told me I had to stop, I'd like to think that I would be brave enough to drink myself into the grave."
"Don't bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don't feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace."
"Medicine is intention. Those who are proficient at using intention are good doctors."
"There isa stigma associated with incontinence, so many people never mention it to their doctors or seek treatment. In reality, fecal incontinence is a very common and often very treatable condition."
"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."
"The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine."
"When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge."
"There are enough doctors on the planet so that nobody has to die for lack of attendance."
"You can't have my heart, the doctor told me I'd be dead without it."
"Star Wars is adolescent nonsense; Close Encounters is obscurist drivel; ‘Star Trek’ can turn your brains into puree of bat guano; and the greatest science fiction series of all time is Doctor Who! And I'll take you all on, one-by-one or all in a bunch to back it up!"
"I'm not feeling very well - I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course."
"Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm."
"Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful."
"Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose."
"I had a polynomial once. My doctor removed it."
"I will always fight for a woman's right to choose and the right to privacy. Reproductive issues are medical related issues and they should be kept private between a woman and her doctor."
"A perfect mind comes from a perfect heart, not the heart known by a doctor's stethoscope but the heart which is the seat of God."
"A chiropractor accomplished in three weeks what the army doctors haven't been able to do in two years."
"The secret of a long life is to never trust a doctor."
"There are more old drunks than there are old doctors."
