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Tidy fees are the most effective remedy, both for the doctor and the patient.
DARIO FO, Accidental Death of an Anarchist
- Surgeons must be very careful
- When they take the knife!
- Underneath their fine incisions
- Stirs the culprit--life!
EMILY DICKINSON, Surgeons must be very careful
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, "The Guermantes Way," Remembrance of Things Past
A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
G.W. LEIBNIZ, as quoted in Margaret Miner's The New International Dictionary of Quotations
God heals and the doctor takes the fees.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Poor Richard's Almanack, 1736
Men who are occupied in the restoration of health to other men, by the joint exertion of skill and humanity, are above all the great of the earth. They even partake of divinity, since to preserve and renew is almost as noble as to create.
VOLTAIRE, "Physicians," Philosophical Dictionary
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
JONATHAN SWIFT, Polite Conversation
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