Medical Quotes
I've got to go. That's one of the penalties of being a doctor. I never seem to finish a conversation. If you look at the human condition today, not everyone is well fed, has access to good medical care, or the physical basics that provide for a healthy and a happy life. Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey. In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival. In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science. It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing. Mammograms are really sort of a gift. You can either catch something early or count your lucky stars because nothing was discovered. Either way, you're ahead of the game. Medical liability reform is not a Republican or Democrat issue or even a doctor versus lawyer issue. It is a patient issue. Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it. Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals. My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more. Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created. People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures. Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back in the shell. The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise. The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find. The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity. The doctors x-rayed my head and found nothing.
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