William C. Bryant
Poet
"It is said to be the manner of hypochondriacs to change often their physician."
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Hippocrates
Physician
"Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm."
Jacques Derrida
Philosopher, Linguist
"The only attitude (the only politics--judicial, medical, pedagogical and so forth) I would absolutely condemn is one which, directly or indirectly, cuts off the possibility of an essentially interminable questioning, that is, an effective and thus transforming questioning."
Napoleon Bonaparte
Military Leader, Emperor
"Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind."
Hippocrates
Physician
"Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician."
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"Far more unwaveringly, the neurotic keeps before his eye his God, his idol, his ideal of personality and clings to his guiding principle, losing sight in the meanwhile of reality, whereas the normal person is always ready to dispense with this crutch, this aid, and reckon unhampered with reality."
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"Health requires healthy food."
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"Grief is like a physical pain which must be allowed to subside somewhat on its own before medical treatment is applied."
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"I would like to promote the concept of a partnership of insurance companies, physicians and hospitals in deploying a basic framework for an electronic medical records system that is affordable."
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"To live long, live slowly."
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"I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money."
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"During my medical education at the University of Basle I found vivisection horrible, barbarous and above all unnecessary"
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"I don't feel one's personal medical condition is everybody's business. It just isn't something you advertise, and it's not open to discussion."
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"The outstanding doctor constantly emphasized the humanitarian aspect of medical care."
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"I love the Discovery Channel. I love all sorts of medical shows. I love a show called Diagnosis: Unknown."
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"Time is generally the best doctor."
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"God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes."
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"More people live off cancer than die from it."
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"I'm 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down - at least he did until he dropped dead."
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"Whenever you have war, you often have more deaths because the medical system and the food system breaks down, than you have directly through violence."
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"But what physician has not had patients who don't make any sense at all? To tell the truth, they're our stock-in-trade. We talk and write about the ones we can make sense of."
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"I completed medical school at Loma Linda University School of Medicine in 1984."
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"Medicines are only fit for old people."
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"At a certain age, you have to live near good medical care — if, that is, you're going to continue. You always have the option of not continuing, which, I fear, is sometimes nobler."
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"He read me extracts from a medical journal describing the progress of a staphylococcus aureus infection. And then he pleasured me with a potato."
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