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“I am a physician. I keep a drug-shop of lies. I give relief, consolation. Can one console and relieve without lying? ... Only women and doctors know how necessary and how helpful lies are to men.”

Knows Men Giving Science Lying Knowledge Know How Drug Doctors Shops Relief Helpful Physicians Consolation Console

Author:Anatole France

“Never lie to a child about doctors or medicine or anything else; but if you feel, as some people seem to feel, that life without lying is an impossibility, at least don't lie about the amount of pain likely to result from a surgical procedure, or about the taste of some medicine. If you know that something to be done will hurt, say so; if a mixture to be swallowed is unpleasant, say so. If you deceive a child once in such matters, do not imagine that it will trust you again. You do not deserve trust, and you will not get it.”

Source: The House and Home: A Practical Book

“As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.”

Lying Known Honor Doctors Sight Notoriety

Author:Abraham Cowley

“Say, ye oppress'd by some fantastic woes, Some jarring nerve that baffles your repose; Who press the downy couch, while slaves advance With timid eye, to read the distant glance; Who with sad prayers the weary doctor tease, To name the nameless ever-new disease; Who with mock patience dire complaints endure, Which real pain and that alone can cure; How would ye bear in real pain to lie, Despised, neglected, left alone to die? How would ye bear to draw your latest breath, Where all that's wretched paves the way for death?”

Source: The Poetical Works of Crabbe, Heber, and Pollok: Complete in One Volume

“No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.”

Littles Lying Doctors Medicine Apothecary

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.