"A doctor could make a million dollars if he could figure out a way to bring a boy into the world without a trigger finger."
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"I think that I had better go, Holmes." "Not a bit, doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell."
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"You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.” “A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting.” “You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to be right."
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"Most medical personnel remain largely unfamiliar with non-medical treatments, and tend to dismiss them without knowing about what they're dismissing. This is a great loss to the doctor as well as to the public."
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"If we learn more than the doctor in areas of value to our health, it is our duty to apply this knowledge to the betterment of ourselves and our families."
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"he very word "patient" implies passivity and powerlessness. Me-teacher-you-dumbbell, or me-doctor-you-patient, or me-politician-you-voter, or any other paternalistic or maternalistic stay-in-your-place tradition will not pass muster with me."
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"After a short silence the doctor raised himself a little in his chair and asked if Tarrou had an idea of the path to follow for attaining peace. "Yes, he replied. "The path of sympathy."
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"Ben's Mr. Market allegory may seem out-of-date in today's investment world, in which most professionals and academicians talk of efficient markets, dynamic hedging and betas. Their interest in such matters is understandable, since techniques shrouded in mystery clearly have value to the purveyor of investment advice. After all, what witch doctor has ever achieved fame and fortune by simply advising 'Take two aspirins'?"
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"The work that leads to a doctor's degree is a constant temptation to sacrifice one's growth as a man to one's growth as a specialist."
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"This we prescribe, though no physician; Deep malice makes too deep incision; Forget, forgive; conclude and be agreed; Our doctors say this is no month to bleed."
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"The main thing is that people see constant reports of break-ins on, on record systems and stolen financial data and social security records and so they'd think about you know what's going to prevent that happening with my medical records. And interestingly enough, patients are less worried about that than their doctors are."
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"The mobile phone... is a tool for those whose professions require a fast response, such as doctors or plumbers."
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"A mystic is a hysteric who has met her confessor before her doctor."
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"Change your mind about playing doctor?" "No, but I hear candy-striper uniforms are pretty cute."
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"But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed."
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"A doctor’s door should never be closed, a priest's door should always be open."
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"The first questions are always to be asked, and the wisest doctor is gravelled by the inquisitiveness of a child."
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"Our reliance on the physician is a kind of despair of ourselves."
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"Nevertheless, when one is ill, one should be submissive to the doctor and obey him."
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"The shaman is the figure at the beginning of human history that unites the doctor, the scientist and the artist into a single notion of care-giving and creativity."
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