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An ignorant doctor is the aide-de-camp of death. - Abu Avicenna (a/k/a Ibn Sina) I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more. - Henry Ward Beecher Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. - Erma Bombeck Doctors cut, burn, and torture the sick, and then demand of them an undeserved fee for such services. - Heraclitus of Ephesus To the sick man, the physician when he enters seems to have three faces, those of a man, a devil, and a god. When the physician first comes and announces the safety of the patient, then the sick man says: "Behold a God or a guardian angel." [Lat., Intrantis medici facies tres esse videntur Aegrotanti; hominis, Daemonis, atque Dei. Cum primum accessit medicus dixitque salutem, "En Deus aut custos angelus," aeger ait.] - John Owen (2), Works (The Physician) The doctor is not unfrequently death's pilot-fish. - George Denison Prentice By medicine life may be prolong'd, yet death Will seize the doctor too. - William Shakespeare A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care. - George Bernard Shaw Nothing is more dangerous than a poor doctor: not even a poor employer or a poor landlord. - George Bernard Shaw, The Doctor's Dilemma: Preface on Doctors, an essay, The Latest Theories It is not much trouble to doctor sick folks, but to doctor healthy ones is troublesome. - Henry Wheeler Shaw (used pseudonyms Josh Billings and Uncle Esek) There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse. - Laurence Sterne Though fancy may be the patient's complaint, necessity is often the doctor's. - Johann Georg von Zimmermann
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