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" Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor. "

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" I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians. "

Alexander the Great

" Developments in medical technology have long been confined to procedural or pharmaceutical advances, while neglecting a most basic and essential component of medicine: patient information management. "

" You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him 'Doctor.' "

" Patients who are being kept alive by technology and want to end their lives already have a recognized constitutional right to stop any and all medical interventions, from respirators to antibiotics. They do not need physician-assisted suicide or euthanasia. "

Ezekiel Emanuel

" One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn't do you any good. "

" You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten. "

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" The greatest evil is physical pain. "

Saint Augustine

" There are really only two plays: Romeo and Juliet, and put the darn ball in the basket. "

" Nobody just leaves medical school, especially given it's fiercely competitive to get in. But I had a sister who was a doctor, another who was a pharmacist, a brother who was an engineer. So my parents already had sensible children who would be able to make an actual living, and I think they felt comfortable sacrificing their one strange child. "

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

" A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant. "

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

" When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother. "

Rodney Dangerfield

" I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick. "

" Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school - not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical. "

Abraham Verghese

" I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places. "

" A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running. "

" I don't have any tricky plays, I'd rather have tricky players. "

" Damn referees, I'll miss them less than anybody. "