To be sick is to enjoy monarchal prerogatives.
—Charles Lamb, 1833
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The physician should look upon the patient as a besieged city and try to rescue him with every means that art and science place at his command.
—Alexander of Tralles, c. 600Well now, there’s a remedy for everything except death.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605In the name of Hippocrates doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
—Luis Buñuel, 1983He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1833Doctors don’t know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in spirit.
—William Saroyan, 1943