Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been …

Lewis Thomas
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Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the earliest records of every culture on earth. It is hard to think of a more dependable or enduring occupation, harder still to imagine any future events leading to its extinction. ✨ Lewis Thomas (1996). Fragile Species, p.7, Simon and Schuster
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