Doctors Quotes — Page 42

George Bernard Shaw

Playwright, Critic

“The test to which all methods of treatment are finally brought is whether they are lucrative to doctors or not.”

Doctors Tests Treatment

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George Bernard Shaw

Playwright, Critic

“Taking all the round of professions and occupations, you will find that every man is the worse for being poor; and the doctor is a specially dangerous man when poor.”

Men Doctors Occupation

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George Bernard Shaw

Playwright, Critic

“He said that private practice in medicine ought to be put down by law. When I asked him why, he said that private doctors were ignorant licensed murders.”

Law Practice Doctors

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George Eliot

Novelist, Poet, Journalist

“It's no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution.”

Doctors Constitution Trifles

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Franklin Raines

Business Executive

“Well, now, and there's - for every dollar the federal government spends, there's real people on the other side, and so when we talk about reductions that are going to affect providers, that's going to affect hospitals and doctors and others.”

Real Government Doctors

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Leo Tolstoy

Novelist, Philosopher

“After the doctor's departure Koznyshev felt inclined to go to the river with his fishing rod. He was fond of angling, and seemed proud of being able to like such a stupid occupation.”

Stupid Doctors Fishing

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George Orwell

Writer, Journalist

“No one I met at this time -- doctors, nurses, practicantes, or fellow-patients -- failed to assure me that a man who is hit through the neck and survives it is the luckiest creature alive. I could not help thinking that it would be even luckier not to be hit at all.”

Thinking Men Doctors

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George Santayana

Philosopher, Poet

“It is true that I am carrying out various methods of treatment recommended by doctors and dentists in the hope of dying in the remote future in perfect health.”

Perfect Doctors Dying

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer, Journalist

“I despise Birth-Control first because it is ... an entirely meaningless word; and is used so as to curry favour even with those who would first recoil from its real meaning. The proceeding these quack doctors recommend does not control any birth.”

Real Science Doctors

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Gustave Flaubert

Novelist

“DOCTOR. Always preceded by 'The good'. Among men, in familiar conversation, 'Oh! balls, doctor!' Is a wizard when he enjoys your confidence, a jack-ass when you're no longer on terms. All are materialists: 'you can't probe for faith with a scalpel.'”

Men Science Doctors

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Griffin Jay

Musician

“There are some things in science which should be brought to light. There are others, doctor, which should be left alone.”

Science Knowledge Doctors

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer, Journalist

“Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.”

Evil Doctors Disease

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