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Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that; it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself. It will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies.

—Leo Tolstoy

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My doctors told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.

—Olympic gold medalist Wilma Rudolph

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Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.

—Norman Cousins

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I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.

—G.M. Trevelyan

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Oh, the powers of nature. She knows what we need, and the doctors know nothing.

—Benvenuto Cellini

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The power of love to change bodies is legendary, built into folklore, common sense, and everyday experience. Love moves the flesh, it pushes matter around. . . . Throughout history, "tender loving care" has uniformly been recognized as a valuable element in healing.

—Larry Dossey

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In medicine, as in statecraft and propaganda, words are sometimes the most powerful drugs we can use.

—Sara Murray Jordan

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In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.

—Martin H. Fischer

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The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.

—Thomas Edison

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The field of Western medicine has become literally nothing but medicine. Doctors are on their way out, to be replaced by self-serve pharmaceutical vending machines.

—Grey Livingston

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America's healthcare system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.

—Walter Cronkite

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Financial ruin from medical bills is almost exclusively an American disease.

—Roul Turley

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One day Joseph Lister was summoned to assist a wealthy lord with a fishbone that had lodged at the back of his throat. After Lister had skillfully removed the obstruction, the grateful patient asked him what he was owed. "My lord," Lister suggested, "suppose we settle for half of what you would be willing to give me if the bone were still lodged in your throat.

—The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes

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In order to be a good doctor a man must also have a good character; that is to say, whatever weaknesses and foibles he may have, he must love his fellow human beings in the concrete and desire their good before his own.

—W. H. Auden

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The . . . patient should be made to understand that he or she must take charge of his own life. Don't take your body to the doctor as if he were a repair shop.

—Quentin Regestein

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