"My doctor told me I shouldn't work out until I'm in better shape. I told him, 'All right; don't send me a bill until I pay you.'"
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"You have to be ready to receive help, whether that be through a book, a therapist or counselor, or a doctor of some kind. That willingness can lead you through a door to the other side, and that's where healing can truly begin."
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"The psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer has a simple heuristic. Never ask the doctor what you should do. Ask him what he would do if he were in your place. You would be surprised at the difference"
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"And there's doctors and lawyers, And business executives, And they're all made out of ticky tacky And they all look just the same."
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"Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey."
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"Doctor told me I've got two weeks to live. I said: "Can I have the last week in July and the 1st week in August?""
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"I would be sitting in my flat watching TV, and 'Doctor Who' would be on with my flatmate there. I would have loved to share the fact that I was the new Doctor, but I couldn't. I was going mad. My dad was rather flabbergasted. When I told him, he laughed. He was excited, elated and very proud."
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"Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside."
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"One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience."
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"I knew that nobody but a luckless man could ever need a doctor in the face of a cyclone."
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"Florence Nightingale was an amazing figure. She created the American Red Cross. She saw the suffering from bad health conditions on the battlefield and in the military hospitals, and she fought like crazy to change the conditions; to make sure that the doctors washed their hands and practiced sanitary measures. She put herself at great risks."
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"No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries."
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"The introduction of homeopathy forced the old school doctor to stir around and learn something of a rational nature about his business. You may honestly feel grateful that homeopathy survived the attempts of the allopaths to destroy it."
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"I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation."
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"Millions of Americans today are taking dietary supplements, practicing yoga and integrating other natural therapies into their lives. These are all preventive measures that will keep them out of the doctor's office and drive down the costs of treating serious problems like heart disease and diabetes."
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"I can't do anything to death, doctor's orders."
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"Somewhere in the world is a doctor who is worse than all other doctors...and someone has an appointment with him in the morning."
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"God cures and the doctor sends the bill."
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"In all modesty, we must admit that governments are not always the best doctors when it comes to diagnosing economic ailments and prescribing the right treatment."
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"It is believed by experienced doctors that the heat which oozes out of the hand, on being applied to the sick, is highly salutary. It has often appeared, while I have been soothing my patients, as if there was a singular property in my hands to pull and draw away from the affected parts aches and diverse impurities, by laying my hand upon the place, and extending my fingers toward it. Thus it is known to some of the learned that health may be implanted in the sick by certain gestures, and by contact, as some diseases may be communicated from one to another."
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