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{{quote|''"Four out of five doctors prefer Camels. The fifth prefers women."''}}
Stock phrase in commercials for non-prescription products with some purported health benefit—especially items which are not actually health care items, such as sugar-free gum.
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This trope has nothing to do with [[Doctor Dolittle]], [[Doctor Doom]], [[Doctor Faustus]], [[Doctor Horribles Sing Along Blog|Doctor Horrible]], [[Doctor Phil]], [[Doctor Slump]], [[Doctor Strange]], [[Dr. Strangelove]], [[Doctor Fate]], [[Doctor Zhivago]], [[The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde|Doctor Jekyll]], [[Doctor Steel]], [[Witch Doctor|witch doctors of any denomination]], or any of the Doctors from [[Doctor Who]], though you probably could find something at least nine of them agreed on.<ref>Specifically Doctors 1-7, 9, and 10. We would've asked the Eighth Doctor, but nobody really knows what he's been doing and we're all too lazy to consult [[Big Finish Doctor Who|the audio dramas]] and [[Eighth Doctor Adventures|stuff]]. And Eleventh's too busy saving the universe with Mr. and Mrs. Pond, so...</ref>
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* The original instance of this phrase comes from Trident gum, where "four out of five dentists recommended sugarless gum for their patients who chew gum". They didn't add the qualifier "if their patients ''insisted'' on chewing gum", nor did they tell you that [http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_174a.html the fifth dentist recommended that his patients not chew gum at all].
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