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“What does Mrs Preston want to go abroad for?' asked Mr Leslie.'I think her doctor wanted her to, Father,' said Agnes.'Doctors!' said Mr Leslie, wiping the whole of the Royal College of Physicians o...”
“There is no such thing as an infallible doctor.”
“GPs are almost the only doctors these days who understand all problems, can see the whole personspend time with the dyingsee things through to the end.”
“What art thou Faustus, but a man condemned to die?”
“I told her that I didn't want to take any drugs. That I had come here not to take drugs. "Listen," she said, not unkindly, "up until now I would say that ninety-nine percent of all the narcotics yo...”
“You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.”
“To become a good dog-doctor it is necessary to love dogs, but it is also necessary to understand them - the same as with us, with the difference that it is easier to understand a dog than a man and...”
“Never congratulate a doctor for the fast recovery of a patient.”
“Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered.”
“The most exquisite pleasure in the practice of medicine comes from nudging a layman in the direction of terror, then bringing him back to safety again.”
“I saved a man's life once," said Granny. "Special medicine, twice a day. Boiled water with a bit of berry juice in it. Told him I'd bought it from the dwarves. That's the biggest part of doct'rin, ...”
“Doctors are great--as long as you don't need them.”
“Every day," I said, "every day I go to work and I see my granddad. I see the drunks and the addicts, the people who have fallen right off the edge of the earth. I see people who have made every bad...”
“Do what is right, and do it now.”
“I always feel that young doctors are only too anxious too experiment. After they've whipped out all our teeth, and administered quantities of very peculiar glands, and removed bits of our insides, ...”
“Western doctors are like poor plumbers. They treat a splashing tube by cleaning up the water. These plumbers are extremely apt at drying up the water, constantly inventing new, expensive, and refin...”
“The core predicament of medicine - the thing that makes being a patient so wrenching, being a doctor so difficult, and being a part of society that pays the bills they run up so vexing - is uncerta...”
“We want progress in medicine to be clear and unequivocal, but of course it rarely is. Every new treatment has gaping unknowns - for both patients and society - and it can be hard to decide what do ...”
“Doctors tend to enter the arenas of their profession's practice with a brisk good cheer that they have to then stop and try to mute a bit when the arena they're entering is a hospital's fifth floor...”
“I saw a doctor. I went in case there were any remnants of the summer inside mesticky, slender fish bones that needed to be scraped into the bin. He was dismissive of my concerns and said my body wo...”
