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Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed.

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.

If you're getting different prescriptions from different doctors, there has to be some sort of check and balance in there somewhere.

A doctor today would never prescribe the treatments my grandfather used in the Confederate Army, but a minister says pretty much the same thing today that a minister would have said back then.

A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.

Today, all patients accepted for treatment at St. Jude's are treated without regard for the family's ability to pay. Everything beyond what is covered by insurance is taken care of, and for those without insurance, all of the medical costs are absorbed by the hospital.

Psychiatrists don't solve anything from one day to the next.

When you're an author, you're always two people. Jasper the writer is different from Jasper the person at home.

The best doctors and medicine in the world can't save you if you don't do what you're supposed to do.