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A doctor, like
anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them
unique, cannot be a scientist; he is either, like the
surgeon, a craftsman, or, like the physician and the
psychologist, an artist. This means that in order to be a
good doctor a man must also have a good character, that is
to say, whatever weaknesses and foibles he may have, he must
love his fellow human beings in the concrete and desire
their good before his own.
-- W. H. Auden
1907-1973, Anglo-American
Poet
Cure the
disease and kill the patient.
-- Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British
Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman
When a man
goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never
be the same. He knows too much.
-- Enid Bagnold
1889-1981, British Novelist,
Playwright
One of the
fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and
disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract
idealism has worn thin, they are uncertain about the value
of the actual lives of the patients they are treating. This
is not because they are callous or personally inhuman: it is
because they live in and accept a society which is incapable
of knowing what a human life is worth.
-- John Berger
1926-, British Actor, Critic
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Nature, time
and patience are the three great physicians.
-- H. G. Bohn
British Publisher
Never go to a
doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck
1927-, American Author,
Humorist
Doctors will
have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we
generals.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte
1769-1821, French General,
Emperor
A skilful
leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
-- Samuel Butler
1612-1680, British Poet,
Satirist
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