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I asked my doctor how many more years I have left and he said, 'You're too ornery to die.' ↗

— Jimmy Piersall

#die #doctor #how #i #left

Our home had many books due principally to the educational interests of my sister and two brothers, all of whom where serious students engaged in professional studies; my sister became a doctor of medicine and my brothers became lawyers. ↗

— Frederick Reines

#books #brothers #doctor #due #educational

I think if I took therapy, the doctor would quit. He'd just pick up the couch and walk out of the room. ↗

— Don Rickles

#doctor #i #i think #just #out

We also have to make sure our children know the history of women. Tell them the rotten truth: It wasn't always possible for women to become doctors or managers or insurance people. Let them be armed with a true picture of the way we want it to be. ↗

— Anne Roiphe

#always #armed #become #children #doctors

The report of this made me exceedingly angry, for I could not see why information which a middle-class woman could get from her doctor should be withheld from a poorer woman who might need it far more. ↗

— Dora Russell

#could #doctor #exceedingly #far #get

Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#humor #medicine #humor

Two young doctors - one from Harvard and the other from Dartmouth - invited me to go to Mecca in my husband's stead. And that is what helped put me back on track. ↗

— Betty Shabazz

#doctors #go #harvard #helped #husband

Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#cannot #created #destroyed #doctor #passion

Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution the time will come when medicine will organize itself into an undercover dictatorship. To restrict the art of healing to doctors and deny equal privileges to others will constitute the Bastille of medical science. All such laws are un-American and despotic. ↗

— Benjamin Rush

#doctors #health-care #liberty #medical-freedom #art

It's hard for women to talk about these things, and for the doctors to really talk about it too, and to even have the knowledge of what's going on. That's why I'm doing this and urging women to speak out and talk to their doctors frankly. ↗

— Cybill Shepherd

#doctors #doing #even #frankly #going