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1. “Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.”

Marcel Proust

Sicknesses, Intelligent, People, Doctor, Mental Burden, Intellectual Strain

2. “Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.”

Marcel Proust

Illness, Pain, Doctor, Human Response, Knowledge, Obedience

3. “A doctor who doesn’t say too many foolish things is a patient half-cured.”

Marcel Proust

Doctor, Wisdom, Patient Care, Medical Insights, Humor, Restraint

4. “Buddy was very proud of his perfect health and was always telling me it was psychosomatic when my sinuses blocked up and I couldn’t breathe. I thought this an odd attitude for a doctor to have and perhaps he should study to be a psychiatrist instead.”

Sylvia Plath

Health Judgment, Psychosomatic Issues, Professional Irony, Health, Doctor, Irony

5. “The doctor is effective only when he himself is affected. Only the wounded physician heals.”

Carl Jung

Wounded Physician, Healing Effectiveness, Affected Doctor, Healing, Doctor, Physician

6. “Nothing is more dangerous than a poor doctor: not even a poor employer or a poor landlord.”

George Bernard Shaw

Dangerous Doctor, Poor Professionalism, Dangerous, Doctor, Professionalism, Poor

7. “The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.”

George Bernard Shaw

Doctor Superstition, Patient Care, Doctor, Superstition, Care, Patient

8. “As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination.”

George Bernard Shaw

Vegetarian Butcher, Doctor Comparison, Vegetarian, Butcher, Doctor, Comparison

9. “Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn’t mean he knows what it is.”

Franz Kafka

Medical Knowledge, Condition Reflection, Doctor, Condition, Knowledge, Understanding

10. “What do I want in a doctor? Perhaps more than anything else-a friend with special knowledge.”

John Steinbeck

Doctor Role, Friendship Knowledge, Care Expectations, Doctor, Friendship, Care

11. “Feeling a bit nervous, as most people do at the prospect of seeing a doctor, I thought I would buy on my way to him something soothing to prevent an accelerated pulse from misleading credulous science.”

Vladimir Nabokov

Nervousness, Doctor, Health, Anxiety, Medicine, Fear

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