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Quotes of the Day for 3 October 2004 - Physicians

Johns Hopkins University opened on this day in 1876, the first school in the US to train physicians. In many ways it became the model for modern medical training worldwide. We seem to have mixed feelings about our doctors, and the quotes in my collection reflect this.

In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
     - Luis Bunuel, 1900 - 1983

Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to kindness and wisdom we make promises only; pain we obey.
     - Marcel Proust, 1871 - 1922

The best doctor in the world is a veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the matter - he's got to just know.
     - Will Rogers, 1879 - 1935

The physician must not only be the healer, but often the consoler.
     - Harriot K. Hunt, 1805 - 1875

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.
     - Hester Lynch Piozzi, 1741 - 1821

I told my doctor I got all the exercise I needed being a pallbearer for all my friends who run and do exercises!
     - Winston Churchill, 1874 - 1965

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