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• People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures.

  Martha Beck

  People, Medical, Authority

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• When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Knowledge, Doe, Nerves

  The Speckled Band

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• There were symptoms that I saw, and though I went to many doctors and had many tests, no one diagnosed MS.

  Teri Garr

  Tests, Saws, Symptoms

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• 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

  Eight, Blood, Hands

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• Medical liability reform is not a Republican or Democrat issue or even a doctor versus lawyer issue. It is a patient issue.

  John Ensign

  Issues, Reform, Medical

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• When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Beauty, Mother, Ugly

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• I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away.

  George Carlin

  Comedy, Building, Genuine

  George Carlin (2007). “The Best of Brain Droppings”, p.53, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor.

  Ty Cobb

  Regret, College, Should Have

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• Sometimes its said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category.

  Robert Jay Lifton

  Sight, Blood, Might

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• I often look at a lot of Doctor Who stuff that's about now, which no one has approached me about.

  Sarah Sutton

  Looks, Stuff, Taxi

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• We wouldn't think of going to our doctor and saying 'Treat me the way doctors treated people in the 19th Century', and yet that's what we're demanding in food production.

  Nina Fedoroff

  Thinking, People, Way

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• He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients - no, three, I think - yes, it was three; I attended their funerals.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Humorous, Thinking

  Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1874). “The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-day”, p.107

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• Star Wars is adolescent nonsense; Close Encounters is obscurist drivel; ‘Star Trek’ can turn your brains into puree of bat guano; and the greatest science fiction series of all time is Doctor Who! And I'll take you all on, one-by-one or all in a bunch to back it up!

  Harlan Ellison

  Stars, War, Brain

  "Doctor Who and the Talons of Weng-Chiang". Book by Terrance Dicks. Introduction, p. 7, 1977.

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• There are some great questions to ask your doctor. If he says 'no,' then you find yourself a different doctor. There really has to be a change in how we medically look at women at this time. I mean, this is not just baby gloom.

  Marie Osmond

  Baby, Mean, Parenting

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• The general public thinks all little people are in circuses or sideshows. We have doctors, nurses, just about every field covered.

  Billy Barty

  Thinking, Nurse, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People pay the doctor for his trouble; for his kindness they still remain in his debt.

  Seneca the Younger

  Kindness, Practice Of Medicine, People

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• The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.

  Elizabeth Blackwell

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell (2016). “Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women: Autobiographical Sketches”, p.24, Library of Alexandria

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• In this case they're doctors. But having passion for your work and to take risks in order to better human kind. That's a pretty big theme. It's pretty inspiring.

  Mary Stuart Masterson

  Inspiring, Passion, Order

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• I wanted to do everything. I wanted to be a pilot. I wanted to be a secret agent. I wanted to be a fireman and a doctor, all that. So I related that through movies and stuff.

  Josh Holloway

  Firefighter, Secret, Agents

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• My bones are as hard as a rock. Every time I have a biopsy, the doctors are doing hand exercises a week, ten days out.

  Don Baylor

  Sports, Exercise, Rocks

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• Most of the doctors in the Tunisian administration, especially those in country districts, contracted typhus and approximately one third of them died of it

  Jules Henry

  Country, Administration, Typhus

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• Drugs are in every walk of life - doctors, lawyers, preachers, the guy who works for IBM, teenagers on the street, teenagers in school.

  Smokey Robinson

  Teenager, School, Guy

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• Ethically, I think pretty much every code of ethics for doctors suggests that they should not be in an interrogation room, particularly if there's anything coercive or abusive going on.

  Jane Mayer

  Beauty, Thinking, Code Of Ethics

  "Psychological Warfare? A Debate on the Role of Mental Health Professionals in Military Interrogations at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and Beyond". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. August 11, 2005.

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• In all modesty, we must admit that governments are not always the best doctors when it comes to diagnosing economic ailments and prescribing the right treatment.

  Kim Campbell

  Government, Modesty, Economic

  Address at Progressive Conservative Brunch in Montreal, Quebec, www.canadahistory.com. August 22, 1993.

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• When Medicare was created for senior citizens and America s disabled in 1965, about half of a seniors health care spending was on doctors and the other half on hospitals.

  Dennis Hastert

  Senior, America, Citizens

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