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“The clown wanted to bypass all medical care and cure his cancer with a naturopathic doctor. What a fool, right?â€� ... Karver’s smirk widened a little. “That’s right, my good man. They shouldn’t even be able to call themselves doctors. Making people eat roots, tree bark, dirt and whatnot. If they stopped trying to peddle their snake oil, maybe they’d stop mysteriously dying or disappearing.â€� Karver paused for a few seconds, grinning at Frank in silence, creating an awkward moment ...”
― Jasun Ether, The Beasts of Success

“And so it is a truth universally acknowledged that a young woman in possession of vague symptoms like fatigue and pain will be in search of a doctor who believes she is actually sick.”
― Meghan O'Rourke, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness

“Jay Levy saw ten women," the doctor later recalled, "And he thought they were all hysterical. Then he saw a man, whose complaints he took seriously.”
― Hillary Johnson, Osler's Web: Inside the Labyrinth of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic

“I will not be satisfied with playing doctor! Not like other so-called health professionals who treat their patients with disdain!! Doctors are healers! They shouldn't act like judges or cops! What kind of doctor do you want to be, huh? A healer or a cop?”
― Aude Mermilliod, Le ChÅ“ur des femmes

“A healer is someone whose hand the patient wants to hold.”
― Aude Mermilliod, Le ChÅ“ur des femmes

“The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.”
― Voltaire

“The actual encounter was always confusing, eleven minutes of liminal contact in which I tried to conduct myself in a way that would make the doctor like me, in the hope they would take some true interest in my plight. But their day was full of tests to order, bureaucracy to cut through, an education that taught them not to say, "I don't know what's wrong with you." And so we stood together in a tiny antiseptic room, the doctor and patient, a world apart.”
― Meghan O'Rourke, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness

“Doctors who want power will do anything to get it; healers will do anything to get away from it.”
― Aude Mermilliod, Le ChÅ“ur des femmes

“Women's sexual activity is none of our business. If they themselves volunteer the information freely, then fine. But what right do we have to know straightaway who they're fucking, how often, and in what positions?”
― Aude Mermilliod, Le ChÅ“ur des femmes

“Medical textbooks never talk about the pain that's caused by anything that doctors do... And many doctors think that the pain is justified "if it's for the patient's good." That is never true. The least we can do, as healers, is everything in our power not to cause pain.”
― Aude Mermilliod, Le ChÅ“ur des femmes

“What a woman is feeling is much more important than what you know... Every time that you interrupt a patient, you are preventing her from speaking her truth, and you make her doubt herself.”
― Aude Mermilliod, Le ChÅ“ur des femmes

“You will not stop them from dying. At best, you will stop them from dying today.”
― Aude Mermilliod, Le ChÅ“ur des femmes

“Medicine Means (The Sonnet)

MEDICINE means Mercy,
MEDICINE means Empathy,
MEDICINE means Dare,
MEDICINE means Integrity,
MEDICINE means Care,
MEDICINE means Ingenuity,
MEDICINE means Nobility,
MEDICINE means Ethicality.
Medicine is not a profession,
Medicine is but a sacred calling.
An average doctor saves a body,
A good doctor saves a being.
Pathogens exist to cash in on sickness.
A doctor exists to be lost among patients.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Find A Cause Outside Yourself: Sermon of Sustainability

“An average doctor saves a body, a good doctor saves a being.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Find A Cause Outside Yourself: Sermon of Sustainability

“Among doctors, there are also criminals!”
― Ramona I.

“Share what you know. Your patients will repay you hundredfold.”
― Aude Mermilliod, Le ChÅ“ur des femmes

“His first afternoon he gained a pound. (Since he weighed but fifteen and since his mother gave birth two weeks early, the doctors weren't unduly concerned. 'It's because you came two weeks too soon,' they explained to Fezzik's mother. 'That explains it.' Actually, of course, it didn't explain anything, but whenever doctors are confused about something, which is really more frequently than any of us would do well to think about, they always snatch at something in the vicinity of the case and add, 'That explains it.' If Fezzik's mother had come late, they would have said, 'Well, you came late, that explains it.' Or 'Well, it was raining during devilery, this added weight is simply moisture, that explains it.')”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

“If you can't feel the difference between a scalpel and a cleaver, there is no difference between a doctor and a butcher.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“USA kids doctor: 'Your healthy kids checked out just fine on their annual check-up. That will be $500 please'.”
― Steven Magee

“Medicine means Mercy - Empathy - Dare - Integrity - Care - Ingenuity - Nobility - and Ethics, or it can mean Mechanical, Egotistical, Dehumanizing, Indifferent, Cold, Insensitive, Nincompoop Elitist. You decide what you practice, and your decision will determine what you are - a doctor or a butcher!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“Doctor Not Butcher
(Medical Anthem Sonnet)

We are the Doctors,
Our worship is to the ailing.
We don't bow to politicians,
Nor to bureaucratic bullying.

Service to the sick
is service to the divine.
There is no greater divinity,
than being a human lifeline.

We don't recognize borders,
We don't recognize states.
Patientcare is our national anthem,
Reward of medicine is smiling patients.

Dead doctor postpones death,
Living doctor improves life.
While butcher doctors monetize malady,
To empower life, real doctors strive.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“We don't recognize borders,
We don't recognize states.
Patientcare is our national anthem,
Reward of medicine is smiling patients.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“Patientcare is our national anthem.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“A smile works faster than a pill, both metaphorically and physiologically. Pills take hours to reach your bloodstream, while a smile triggers instant release of neurochemicals, which alleviates pain and facilitates immunity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“A smile works faster than a pill.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“Smile Before Pills (Sonnet 1402)

The only permanence we have is each other,
The only paradise we have is each other.
Heaven is as real as we are to each other,
Most potent medicine we have is each other.

One moment of love is time eternal,
100 years of hate are but ghost of wild past.
One rebellion of love is destiny in making,
100 rituals of hate are just monkeys' mass.

A smile works faster than a pill,
both metaphorically and physiologically.
Pills take hours to reach your bloodstream, while
a smile triggers instant release of neurochemicals,
which alleviates pain and facilitates immunity.

Sure, pills and prescriptions are a scientific boon,
They achieve wonders where organic powers fall short.
Yet, there is no prescription for a mannerless medico,
There is no pharmaceutical cure for a medical upstart.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“You can make an appointment with a bad doctor only on a stretcher.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“At times, cops resemble gangsters, and doctors resemble patients.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Dr Babbington snorts a mighty snort of derision. ‘You young people spend entirely too much time online, self-diagnosing.â€� He pauses and adds with a smile, ‘You all turn up here telling me that you’ve got this or that and talking about worst-case scenarios. You need to leave medicine to the medical professionals. That’s what we’ve been trained to do.”
― I.M. Millennial, A Year in Boomertown: A Memoir

“Over the years, Roland had grown accustomed to the quiet atmosphere of Dr. Gray’s office. Despite being just off the main street, there wasn’t much commotion during the day. Some nights one might hear a few of drunks cackling outside as they wandered home from the pub, but aside from that the street remained undisturbed.”
― Ardin Patterson, Feral