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The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the highe

The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes. – Desiderius Erasmus

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I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people. – Desiderius Erasmus

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Insanity
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The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death. – Desiderius Erasmus

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If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; if he kills, the earth hides it. – Scottish Proverb

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A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist; he is either, like the surgeon, a craftsman, or, like the physician and the psychologist, an artist. – W. H. Auden

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The practice of medicine is a thinkers art, the practice of surgery a plumber s. – Martin H. Fisher

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Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell. – Dorothy Canfield Fisher

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