There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My doctor tells me I should start slowing it down - but there are more old drunks than there are old doctors so let's all have another round.
One of my grandfathers, actually, having gone out there as a minister, decided he would better serve the people as a doctor. So at a very late age - at the age of 38 in fact - he changed course and decided to become a doctor.
Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.
The older one gets in this profession, the more people there are with whom one would never work again.
The wonderful thing about modern medicine is that so many of these complaints that used to signify old age and decline can be coped with.
It's wrong to put the drug lobby's interests ahead of older Americans.
The elderly are all someone's flesh and blood and we cannot just shut them in a cupboard and hand over the responsibility for taking care of them to the state.
My parents both are physicians, and my grandfathers were both physicians.
Medicines are only fit for old people.
Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.