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The Doctor

«The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.»
Author: Ashley Montagu | About: Disease, Doctors, Health | Keywords: The Cure, The Doctor
«I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.»
«Man may escape from rope and gun; Nay, some have outliv'd the doctor's pill: Who takes a woman must be undone, That basilisk is sure to kill»
«Oh, for boyhood's painless play, sleep that wakes in laughing day, health that mocks the doctor's rules, knowledge never learned of schools.»
«It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.»
«I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.»
«The doctor glanced up at the statue of the Republic, then said he did not know if he was using the language of reason but he knew he was using the language of the facts as everybody could see them - which wasn't necessarily the same thing»
«Joy and Temperance and Repose - Slam the door on the doctor's nose»
«It is no time to go for the doctor when the patient is dead»
Author: Irish Sayings | Keywords: go for, no Time, The Doctor
«Lady: I've been waiting for two days and so far, no one's gotten in yet [the doctor's office].Samantha: I was once told I wouldnt' be able to get backstage to see Mick Jagger. Well I did get backstage...and I blew him. [Silence] Excuse me... I don't know if this is an appropriate question to ask...Lady: I think we passed appropriate a few seconds ago. Samantha: What kind of cancer do you have?Lady: Breast. Samantha: Breast! Me too. I'm curious...Do you have children?Lady: I'm a nun. Samantha: You have none. Lady: No, no, no...I AM a nun. But that doesn't mean that I didn't enjoy your Mick Jagger story. Samantha: I thought that nuns had to wear...Lady: Oh, I haven't worn a habbit in years. Samantha: So then...you don't have sex? Lady: No. Samantha: Never had sex?Lady: No. Samantha: Ohh. [thoughtful silence] Just one more. Lady: Go right ahead. Samantha: Are you allowed to masturbate?Lady: [thinking] I never asked. But thanks for getting my mind off cancer for the first time in a week. Samantha: Happy to help.»

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