"Adrian, the Emperor, exclaimed incessantly, when dying, "That the crowd of physicians had killed him.""
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"There are some modern practitioners, who declaim against medical theory in general, not considering that to think is to theorize; and that no one can direct a method of cure to a person labouring under disease, without thinking, that is, without theorizing; and happy therefore is the patient, whose physician possesses the best theory."
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"The doctor is effective only when he himself is affected. Only the wounded physician heals."
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"Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful."
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"The role of a clown and a physician are the same - it's to elevate the possible and to relieve suffering."
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"The physician, to the extent he is a physician, considers only the good of the patient in what he prescribes, and his own not at all"
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"O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse."
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"It is silliness to live when to live is torment, and then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician."
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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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"To a physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ."
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"There are dull and bright, sacred and profane, coarse and fine egotists. It is a disease that, like influenza, falls on all constitutions. In the distemper known to physicians as chorea, the patient sometimes turns round, and continues to spin slowly in one spot. Is egotism a metaphysical varioloid of this malady?"
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"Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes."
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"Physicians think they are doing something for you by labeling what you have as a disease"
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"Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer."
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"Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrell to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot."
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"You must be born for your physician, otherwise you are bound to perish because of your physician."
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"Who ever saw a doctor use the prescription of his colleague without cutting out or adding something?"
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"If you are a physician and someone comes to see you with an absolutely incapacitating headache or a swollen arm, you don't tell them, "Come back in 10 years when I've completed my study and I'll see what I can do for you.""
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"The goal of scientific physicians in their own science ... is to reduce the indeterminate. Statistics therefore apply only to cases in which the cause of the facts observed is still indeterminate."
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"More than one skillful physician has said that if one asks the right questions, the patient will make the diagnosis for you in his or her own words."
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