My best friend in medical school was a magician. And we were shown an X-ray of a sword-swallower, and I tried it and failed. Then I got a sword-swallower as a patient, and he taught me.
Copy QuoteThe art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Copy Quote View & ShareIllness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
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Copy Quote View & ShareIn the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
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