Quote by Martha Beck
People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authorit

People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures. – Martha Beck

Other quotes by Martha Beck

We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster. – Martha Beck

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Age
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No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from lifes slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone. – Martha Beck

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alone
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Denial exists because human infants, though equipped with trust-o-meters, are built to trust, blindly and absolutely, any older person who wanders past. – Martha Beck

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Trust
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Other Quotes from
Medical
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God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes. – George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs

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Medical

There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by what he said but by what he did, that there is an intimate relation between curing and caring. – Ashley Montagu

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Medical

The purse of the patient often protracts his case. – Zimmermann

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Medical

Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created. – Peter Shaffer

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Medical

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Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome. – Rosa Parks

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If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating. – Leigh Hunt

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Food

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them. – Marcel Proust

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Change