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"Many doctors are drawn to this profession (psychology) because they have an innate deficiency of insight into the motives, feelings and thoughts of others, a deficiency they hope to remedy by ingesting masses of data."
"A doctor is not criticized for describing the manifestations and symptoms of an illness, even though the symptoms may be disgusting. I feel that a writer has the right to the same freedom In fact, I think that the time has come for the line between literature and science, a purely arbitrary line, to be erased."
"When a doctor makes a mistake, it's best to bury the subject."
"To be diagnosed was the hardest thing because I didn't know what they were talking about... And the doctor said, Don't worry, in three months you'll know. So I went about my business and then, one day, it jumped me. I couldn't get up... Your muscles trick you; they did me."
"You have the upper class Negroes who are the modern day Uncle Toms or the 20th century Uncle Toms. They don't wear a handkerchief anymore. They wear top hats. They're called Doctor, they're called - Reverend, but they're still - they play the same role today that Uncle Tom played on the plantation."
"It is nearly 50 years since I was assured by a conclave of doctors that if I did not eat meat I should die of starvation."
"I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs, say, or fear of butter. Most doctors feel that you can have a little bit of everything."
"Dreams? If only they had been! But I don't need dreams, Doctor, that's why I hardly have them—because I have this life instead. With me it all happens in broad daylight!"
"It is frightening how dependent on drugs we are all becoming and how easy it is for doctors to prescribe them as the universal panacea for our ills."
"My dad is a doctor, a professor of psychiatry, and my mum is a psychotherapist."
"A lady asked Dr. Franklin Well Doctor what have we got a republic or a monarchy - "A republic," replied the Doctor, "if you can keep it.""
"Doctors frequently get it wrong. One out of five patients today is in the hospital because incorrect treatment by a physician put him or her there."
"I love doctors and hate their medicine."
"The exercise of prayer, in those who habitually exert it, must be regarded by us doctors as the most adequate and normal of all the pacifiers of the mind and calmers of the nerves."
"I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful."
"Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey."
"As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination."
"I doubt if any doctor could recommend a more nourishing breakfast for a working girl in a hurry."
"Doctors cut, burn, and torture the sick, and then demand of them an undeserved fee for such services."
"If you don't feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace."
