When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals.
Today a doctor could make a million dollars if he could figure out a way to bring a boy into the world without a trigger finger.
The great merit of being a doctor is that you are not obliged to follow your own advice.
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.[Des hommes qui s’occuperaient de rendre la santé à d’autres hommes par les seuls principes d’humanité et de bienfaisance seraient fort au – dessus de tous les grands de la terre : ils tiendraient de la Divinité. Conserver et réparer est presque aussi beau que faire.]
It is the best sign in the world when a physician makes the patient laugh.[Lorsque le médecin fait rire le malade, c’est le meilleur signe du monde.]
I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another’s company and aid in consultation. A doctor who cannot take out your appendix properly will recommend to you a doctor who will be unable to remove your tonsils with success.
Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.[Доктора – те же адвокаты, с тою только разницей, что адвокаты только грабят, а доктора и грабят и убивают…]
Do you know who make the worst patients in the world? Doctors.
