"The physician...is the flower (such as it is) of our civilization."
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"Where once it was the physician who waged bellum contra morbum, the war against disease, now it's the whole society."
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"'Physician, heal thyself' is more true in matters religious than mundane."
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"Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered."
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"The words ending in Ique do mocke the Physician (as Hectique, Paralitique, Apoplectique, Lethargique)."
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"This is where the strength of the physician lies, be he a quack, a homeopath or an allopath. He supplies the perennial demand for comfort, the craving for sympathy that every human sufferer feels."
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"The most dangerous physicians are those born actors who imitate born physicians with a perfectly deceptive guile."
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"The physician who knows only medicine, knows not even medicine."
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"A half-educated physician is not valuable. He thinks he can cure everything."
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"There is no health; physicians say that we, at best, enjoy but neutrality."
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"Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death."
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"I quite like the transitions of being an actor, because you get to explore these little pockets of life. So if you're playing a builder you get to know about building, if you're playing a scientist or a physician or something you get to know about physics. And similarly with this world I like exploring their culture, that very sort of upper middle class, addictive... that's part of the reason I love it."
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"Physicians can't really dictate our protocols. They can inform us to the extent that they can as to what would best serve us, because we're not medical geniuses, no human being is, but intrinsically there is inside of each one of us, the knowing of what's going on."
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"Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures."
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"As far as physicians go, chance is more valuable than knowledge."
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"Lawyers and physicians are an ill provision for any country."
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"Physicians mend or end us, Secundum artem; but although we sneer - In health - when ill we call them to attend us, Without the least propensity to jeer"
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"Quacks are a part of our culture, and we all fall prey to them. Who among us can say, for sure, that even our own personal physicians are honest and competent?"
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