Socrates: Would this habit of eating animals not require that we slaughter animals that we knew as individuals, and in whose eyes we could gaze and see ourselves reflected, only a few hours before our meal? Glaucon: This habit would require that of us. Socrates: Wouldn't this [knowledge of our role in turning a being into a thing] hinder us in achieving happiness? Glaucon: It could so hinder us in our quest for happiness. Socrates: And, if we pursue this way of living, will we not have need to visit the doctor more often? Glaucon: We would have such need. Socrates: If we pursue our habit of eating animals, and if our neighbor follows a similar path, will we not have need to go to war against our neighbor to secure greater pasturage, because ours will not be enough to sustain us, and our neighbor will have a similar need to wage war on us for the same reason? Glaucon: We would be so compelled. Socrates: Would not these facts prevent us from achieving happiness, and therefore the conditions necessary to the building of a just society, if we pursue a desire to eat animals? Glaucon: Yes, they would so prevent us.
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SIR,--Your letter of February the 18th came to hand on the 1st instant; and the request of the history of my physical habits would have puzzled me not a little, had it not been for the model with which you accompanied it, of Doctor Rush's answer to a similar inquiry. I live so much like other people, that I might refer to ordinary life as a history of my own. Like my friend the Doctor, I have lived temperately, eating very little animal food, and that not as an aliment, so much as a condiment for the vegetables, which constitute my principle diet.
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A man goes to a psychiatrist. The doctor says, 'You're crazy' The man says, 'I want a second opinion!' 'Okay, you're ugly too!'
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The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
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The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says 'It's a girl.'
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The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.
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The doctor found, when she was dead, her last disorder mortal.
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A doctor says to a man, 'You want to improve your love life? You need to get some exercise. Run ten miles a day.' Two weeks later, the man called the doctor. The doctor says, 'How is your love life since you have been running?' 'I don't know, I'm 140 mile
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The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: 'It's a girl.'
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Well, after I had the heart attack, it was a very simple choice. What the doctor told me I did and I did it religiously. I ate nothing but lean turkey breast or chicken breast or a piece of fish that was very lean. I mean I stayed away from everything.
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A patient going to a doctor for his first visit was asked, 'And whom did you consult before coming to me?'
'Only the village druggist,' was the answer.
'And what sort of foolish advice did that numbskull give you?' asked the doctor, his tone and manner denoting his contempt for the advice of the layman.
'Oh,' replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, 'he told me to come and see you.'
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An Apple a day keeps the doctor away. But . . . an onion a day keeps everyone away.
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What it comes down to is this: the grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the liquor dealer, the policeman, the doctor, the city father and the politician -- these are the people who make money out of prostitution, these are the real reapers of the wages of sin.
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The doctor says to the patient, 'Take your clothes off and stick your tongue out the window'. 'What will that do?' asks the patient. The doctor says, 'I'm mad at my neighbor!'
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The Doctor called Mrs. Cohen saying, 'Mrs. Cohen, your check came back.' Mrs. Cohen answered, 'So did my arthritis!'
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A cold needs the cook as much as the doctor.
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The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will educate his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
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The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the social worker -judge.
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Vivisection has done little for the art of the doctor at the bedside, but it has done immeasurable harm to the character and mind of the rising generation of doctors.
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I went to the doctor the other day and he said I was a paranoid schizophrenic... Well, he didn't actually say it, but we know what he was thinking.
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Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
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The billiard table is better than the doctor.
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The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.
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A doctor has a stethoscope up to a man's chest. The man asks, 'Doc, how do I stand?' The doctor says, 'That's what puzzles me!'
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A few years ago, I thought, I'll never make it. I started to go to the doctor to help me lose weight.
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The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.
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But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.
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God heals, and the doctor takes the fee.
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A man spoke frantically into the phone: 'My wife is pregnant and her contractions are only two minutes apart!' 'Is this her first child?' the doctor asked. 'No, you idiot!' the man shouted. 'This is her husband!'
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A Polish man had a bandage on each ear. What happened? 'I was ironing, and the phone rang!' 'What about the other ear?' 'Had to call the doctor!'
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