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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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Who ever said that doctors are truthful or even intelligent? You're getting a lot if they know their profession. Don't ask any more from them. They're only human, after all.

—Marjorie Karmel

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People coming away from a session with Dr. S. usually looked as if they had had fifty minutes on the anvil with an apprentice blacksmith.

—Margaret Halsey

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I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the "Professional Building." I felt better right away.

—George Carlin

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My doctor is nice; every time I see him, I'm ashamed of what I think of doctors in general.

—Mignon McLaughlin

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Use it up, wear it out, make do, or do without.

—Puritan saying

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The little things? The little moments? They aren't little.

—Jon Kabat-Zinn

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When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves to step aside; we are disavowing the very realm where we exist and where all things precious are kept — the realm of emotion and conscience; of memory and intention and sensation.

—John Updike

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Real wealth consists in things of utility and beauty, in things that help to create strong, beautiful bodies and surroundings inspiring to live in.

—Emma Goldman

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Santayana inherited his simple and unostentatious habits from his father. Once he asked the senior Santayana why he always traveled third class. "Because there's no fourth class," his father said.

—Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes

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Again and again I congratulate myself on my so-called poverty. I was almost disappointed yesterday to find thirty dollars in my desk which I did not know that I possessed, though now I should be sorry to lose it.

—Henry David Thoreau

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