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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 treating pregnant men.
Isaac Asimov on medical

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only pain we obey.
Marcel Proust on medical

Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.
Marcel Proust on medical

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
Samuel Butler on medical

You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten.
Earl Wilson on medical

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.
Ivan Illich on medical

Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
Hippocrates on medical

The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.
Denis Diderot on medical

I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.
Rita Rudner on medical

As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.
Jack Kevorkian on medical

Time is generally the best doctor.
Ovid on medical

My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.
Walter Matthau on medical

When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays.
Henny Youngman on medical

The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves most things, in fact, are better in the morning.
Lewis Thomas on medical

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
Ovid on medical

I was always shocked when I went to the doctor's office and they did my X-ray and didn't find that I had eight more ribs than I should have or that my blood was the color green.
Nicolas Cage on medical

In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
Edward Everett Hale on medical

The doctors x-rayed my head and found nothing.
Dizzy Dean on medical

I'm 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down - at least he did until he dropped dead.
Cesar Romero on medical

Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back in the shell.
Cass Canfield on medical