"Chlamydia, today´s most common cause of venereal disease, does the equivalent of hiding in the police station. Schistosomes of the mansoni type go a step further and essentially steal police uniforms. These parasites, a serious cause of liver disease in Asia, pick up blood-group antigens so that they may look to the immune system like our own normal blood cells."
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"One popular saying was, "The boy who goes into medicine is too lazy for farm or shop, too stupid for the Bar, and too immoral for the pulpit."
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"Western doctors are like poor plumbers. They treat a splashing tube by cleaning up the water. These plumbers are extremely apt at drying up the water, constantly inventing new, expensive, and refined methods of drying up water. Somebody should teach them how to close the tap."
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"Like plumbing, medicine is a profession where you learn early on not to put your fingers in your mouth."
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"You are speaking of my future lover. Be more respectful."
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"A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement"
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"How do you tell the psychiatrists from the patients in the hospital?The patients get better and leave."
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"As if you could kill time without injuring eternity."
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"I have done so much medical and scientific research Crashing Life I am thinking about putting Ph D behind my name or maybe B. S."
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"To talk of diseases is a sort of Arabian Nights entertainment."
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"...by the end of my first week as an intern, I am just about ready to throw my pager out the window. A high window. Overlooking a trash compactor. Filled with highly corrosive acid."
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"Gallows humor is part of having a doctor in the house. Deal with it."
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"I saved a man's life once," said Granny. "Special medicine, twice a day. Boiled water with a bit of berry juice in it. Told him I'd bought it from the dwarves. That's the biggest part of doct'rin, really. Most people'll get over most things if they put their minds to it, you just have to give them an interest."
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"Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered."
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"Futures can and do change, something as simple as you're supposed to turn right down a street one day... In your bones u know it, and yet for reasons no one understands, you decide to debunk fate and go left. Now instead of meeting your spouse of your dreams and having a house full of kids, you get flattened by an ice-cream truck and spend the next 5 years in physical therapy recovering from the injuries; or worse you die from it. And all cause you exercised free will and turned the opposite way on a whim."
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"Hasn’t stopped us before. And besides, if they wanted to kill us, we’d be dead by now and would be having an entirely different conversation. I wonder if I’d still be mad at you, or if we would talk in words or pictures. Maybe in smells. That would be cool.” -Janco"
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"I have been quiet today because fear in my heart has been fighting with frustration in my brain, leaving little energy for my mouth."
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"Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another."
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"The Little Boy and the Old Man Said the little boy, Sometimes I drop my spoon. Said the old man, I do that too. The little boy whispered, I wet my pants. I do that too, laughed the little old man. Said the little boy, I often cry. The old man nodded, So do I. But worst of all, said the boy, it seems Grown-ups don't pay attention to me. And he felt the warmth of a wrinkled old hand. I know what you mean, said the little old man."
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"Oh no. Don't smile. You'll kill me. I stop breathing when you smile."
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