There's a classic medical aphorism: 'Listen to the patient; they're telling you the diagnosis.' Actually, a lot of patients are just telling you a lot of rubbish, and you have to stop them and ask the pertinent questions. But, yes, in both drama and medicine, isolated facts can accumulate to create the narrative.
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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