Quotations from Doctors

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“The satisfaction of knowing that your work has contributed to the lives of

thousands of CML patients is impossible to put into words. I am grateful to all

the patients who volunteered, allowing us to test our hypothesis, and I thank

them and their families for their courage and inspiration”

-- Sawyers

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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 (1694-1778) French writer and historian.

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Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure

diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing.

Voltaire (1694-1778) French writer and historian.

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Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers

or enjoins what is for the physician's interest, but that all seek the good of

their patients? For we have agreed that a physician strictly so called, is a

ruler of bodies, and not a maker of money, have we not?

Plato (BC 427-BC 347) Greek philosopher.

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God heals and the doctor takes the fee.

lin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist and philosopher.

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He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients, no, three, I think --

yes, it was three; I attended their funerals.

Mark Twain (1835-1910) U.S. humorist, writer, and lecturer.

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The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians

for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated.

~Plato

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A hospital should also have a recovery room adjoining the cashier's office.

~Francis O'Walsh

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You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax - tomorrow you'll

be afraid to cough. ~Pearl

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I recently became a Christian Scientist. It was the only health plan I could

afford. ~Betsy Salkind

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No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. ~Chinese Proverb

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“My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay

the bill he gave me six months more.”

Walter Matthau

FYI & laughter,

Lottie Duthu