"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

January 1, 1970

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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).