doctors

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.

Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered.

Never congratulate a doctor for the fast recovery of a patient.

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 easier to love him.

Before you worry about the beauty of your body, worry about the health of your body.

Health is hearty, health is harmony, health is happiness.

Before you treat a man with a condition, know that not all cures can heal all people. For the chemistry that works on one patient may not work for the next, because even medicine has its own conditions.

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 you have taken in your life you bought from guys you didn't know, in bathrooms or on street corners, something like that. Correct?"I nodded."Well these guys could have been selling you salt or strychnine. They didn't care. They wanted your money. I don't care about your money, and, unlike your previous suppliers, I went to college to study just the right drugs to give to people like you in order to help you get better. So, bearing all that in mind ... Take the fucking drugs!"I took the drugs.

You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.

GPs are almost the only doctors these days who understand all problems, can see the whole person_spend time with the dying_see things through to the end.

My girl was mad and I loved her. Upon a night, she read my poetry; and kissing me madly she cried, __ou are a genius, my love!_ To which I replied, __y girl,_ whispering, __very doctor in this land with a prescription pad is more of a genius than I.

There is no such thing as an infallible doctor.

What art thou Faustus, but a man condemned to die?

I wonder how Japan's futuristic robot doctors will treat the worst and most widespread disease humanity already has - artificially lowered IQ. Making people stupider makes them buy more stuff _ so __ow many robots can you afford?_ will be the big question of one of the following decades, unless we go back to Communism and produce everything for the sake of it, for free.

...Why is it, that from the moment you enter medical school to the moment you retire, that the only disorder you will ever diagnosis with a physics book - is obesity? This is biology folks, it's endocrinology, it's physiology - physics has nothing to do with it. The law of thermodynamics is always true, [but] the energy balance equation is irrelevant...

I lay my cheek on his solid back. I realize this is the real Jacade. The man who__ strong and fierce, but vulnerable and damaged. Confident and dominating, but generous and kind.

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 off the face of the world with this withering remark.

Two-thirds of all preachers, doctors and lawyers are hanging on to the coat tails of progress, shouting, whoa! while a good many of the rest are busy strewing banana peels along the line of march.