quotations about doctors
Disease increases in proportion to the increase in the number of doctors in a place.
MAHATMA GANDHI
The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
Doctors are the same as lawyers, the sole difference being that lawyers only rob you, but doctors rob you and kill you too.
ANTON CHEKHOV
Ivanov
Doctors don't seem to realize that most of us are perfectly content not having to visualize ourselves as animated bags of skin filled with obscene glop.
JOE HALDEMAN
The Forever War
My doctor is wonderful. Once when I couldn't afford an operation, he touched up the X-rays.
JOEY BISHOP
attributed, The Mammoth Book of Zingers
Doctors are great--as long as you don't need them.
EDWARD E. ROSENBAUM
A Taste of My Own Medicine: When the Doctor Is the Patient
A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
G.W. LEIBNIZ
attributed, The New International Dictionary of Quotations
An ignorant doctor is the aide-de-camp of death.
AVICENNA
attributed, Day's Collacon
I think you might dispense with half your doctors, if you would only consult Doctor Sun more, and be more under the treatment of those great hydropathic doctors, the clouds!
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Royal Truths
The man who doctors himself with the aid of medical books, runs the risk of dying of a typographical error.
EVAN ESAR
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