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  • The thing you see in survivors is that they express feelings - I won't say some of the things they tell their doctors, when doctors tell them they're going to die in six months. Boy, do they let the doctor know how they feel about that statement.
  • The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly no engineers and mechanics. Let Yankees adopt such low callings. [Gone With The Wind]
  • For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
  • When donors visited the Black Panther Party, they came and saw our real programs, a real clinic, with real doctors and medics, giving service to people.
  • I began to see during the civil war, in that part of the states of Missouri and Kansas where the doctors were shut out, the children did not die.
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  • Bernie S. Siegel As doctors, we are not trained to communicate and understand the power of our words as they relate to a patient's ability and desire to survive.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Marcel Proust For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Walter Cronkite I asked [my doctors] if I'd be able to play singles tennis and they said I could. That made me very happy since I haven't played in five years.
    Walter Cronkite
    American broadcast journalist (1916 - 2009)
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  • Bob Bartlett If they take their children to doctors, they believe they are putting their faith in man instead of in God.
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  • Luis Bunuel In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
    Luis Bunuel
    Spanish director (1900 - 1983)
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  • Ba Jin The doctors realized very clearly that their minds and emotions were changing from day to day. On the one hand they were healing the patient, and on the other it looked as if they were healing themselves too. It was this chief surgeon who first volunteered to offer his skin when grafting began.
    A Battle For Life
    Ba Jin
    Chinese author and political activist (1904 - 2005)
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  • Allen Tate According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for.
    Allen Tate
    American poet and essayist (1899 - 1979)
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  • Barry Commoner As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world - most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world's poor.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • B. D. Wong Asian people are very practical and come from a conservative world. The parents want their kids to be doctors and lawyers. There are casting calls for Asian children, but once the parents find out the children might miss school, they're opposed to it.
    B. D. Wong
    American actor (1960 - )
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  • Barry Marshall Before the 20th century, the ulcer was not a respectable disease. Doctors would say, 'You're under a lot of stress.' Nineteenth-century Europe and America had all these crazy health spas and quack treatments.
    Barry Marshall
    Australian physician, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology (1951 - )
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  • Ben Goldacre Doctors and patients need as much data as possible to make an informed decision about what treatment is best.
    Ben Goldacre
    British physician, academic (1974 - )
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  • Anton Chekhov Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Voltaire Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Anton Chekhov Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • William Saroyan Doctors don't know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in spirit.
    William Saroyan
    Armenian-American novelist, playwright, and writer (1908 - 1981)
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  • Napoleon Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Aeschylus Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperament?
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Carolyn Murphy Giving birth was the most amazing thing I've ever done. I'd been living in a Third World country, and I said, 'I'm going to just squat behind a tree.' I basically did that but in a chair in my living room. I didn't want a sterile hospital room. I didn't want doctors. I had a midwife.
    Carolyn Murphy
    American model and actress (1974 - )
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  • Andrew Taylor Still I began to see during the civil war, in that part of the states of Missouri and Kansas where the doctors were shut out, the children did not die.
    Andrew Taylor Still
    American physician and surgeon (1828 - 1917)
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  • Ernest Hemingway 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. A doctor who cannot take out your appendix properly will recommend you to a doctor who will be unable to remove your tonsils with success.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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