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Medical Quotes by Marcel Proust
- Medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to our aid, the chances…
- Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.
- Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
- It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different…
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- All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are… — Isaac Asimov
- Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The greatest evil is physical pain. — Saint Augustine
- The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing… — Edward Bach
- When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much. — Enid Bagnold
- Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood… — Anita Baker
- Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise,… — Saint Basil
- People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures. — Martha Beck
- The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction. — Alfred Adler
- Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established. — Wendell Berry
- Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient. — Ambrose Bierce
- Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. — Erma Bombeck