Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Quotes: Medicine (2)

Medicine 86 "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. Portable Curmudgeon. Wow! That describes the doctors I know. RayS.

Medicine 86 "Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you, too." Anton Chekhov. Portable Curmudgeon.

Medicine 124 "She got her good looks from her father; he’s a plastic surgeon." Groucho Marx. Portable Curmudgeon.

Medicine 194 "We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession." George Bernard Shaw. Portable Curmudgeon.

Medicine 10 "The garden and the bee hive are all her physic and cirugery, and she lives the longer for it." Thomas Overbury, “A Fair and Happy Milkmaid.” 1615. Gross, ed. Essays. Let Nature, not surgery, take its course and you will live the longer for it. RayS.

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