 | "One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience."
- Alice James
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| Don't live in a town where there are no doctors.
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Jewish Proverb. |
| "[Medicine is] a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind."
- Napoleon Bonaparte
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| Orthodox medicine has not found an answer to your complaint. However, luckily for you, I happen to be a quack.
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Richter cartoon caption. |
| "One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine."
- Sir William Osler
, Aphorisms from his Bedside Teachings (1961) p. 105. |
| "The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals."
- Sir William Osler
, In H. Cushing, Life of Sir William Osler (1925). |
| "Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic."
- Thomas Szasz
, The Second Sin (1973) "Science and Scientism". |
| "The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease."
- Voltaire
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