"A doctor's reputation is made by the..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw
A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.
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“A serious illness or a death advertises the doctor exactly as a hanging advertises the barrister who defended the person hanged.”
“Strive to preserve your health; and in this you will better succeed in proportion as you keep clear of the physicians, for their drugs are a kind of alchemy concerning which there are no fewer books than there are medicines.”
“Skin diseases are something doctors like, the patient neither dies nor gets well.”
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“We label judges with having the meanest motives, and yet we desire that our reputation and fame should depend upon the judgment of men, who are all, either from their jealousy or preoccupation or want of intelligence, opposed to us - and yet despite their bias, just for the sake of making these men decide in our favor, we peril in so many ways both our peace and our life.”
“Your reputation is that which people think you are; your character is that which you are.”
“We are so presumptuous that we should like to be known all over the world, even by people who will only come when we are no more. Such is our vanity that the good opinion of half a dozen of the people around us gives us pleasure and satisfaction.”