“If I am Chernenko's doctor and if I am here, then Chernenko is well because a doctor should be with his patient.”

— Yevgeniy Chazov

Attempting to quell rumors of Soviet leader Chernenko's ill health, as quoted in "Visiting Soviet Doctor Changes His Statement" in The New York Times (10 February 1985) http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70F14F63C5D0C738DDDAB0894DD484D81.

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