Agelaus chanced, operating on a man, to kill. “Lucky wretch!” he cried: “Might have limped for life, but for my skill.
Doctors Quotes
Physicians mend or end us, Secundum artem; but although we sneer – In health – when ill we call them to attend us, Without the least propensity to jeer.
After death the doctor.
The physician who killed me, Neither bled, purge or pilled me, Nor counted my pulse but it comes to the same, In the height of my fever I thought of his name.
Isn’t it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do practice?
One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
Yesterday the Zeus of stone from the doctor had a call – Though he’s Zeus and though he’s stone, yet today’s his funeral.
My present profession is Physick – now, when my pockets are full, I cure a patient in three days; when they are empty, I keep him three months.
The kind of doctor I want is one who, when he’s not examining me, is home studying medicine.
The patient surely had been lame for life, So Scalpel, pitying, killed him with his knife
