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A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.

America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.

Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.

Desperate maladies require desperate remedies.

We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.

He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.

It requires a great deal of faith for a man to be cured by his own placebos.

If we practiced medicine like we practice education, we'd look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years.

The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.

Medicine can only cure curable diseases, and then not always.

He who lives by medical prescriptions lives miserably.

Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence.

It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it so it can be devoured by worms.

Medicine cures the man who is fated not to die.

By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.

He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.

I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind, and all the worse for the fishes.

The only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.

God heals and the doctor takes the fee.