Physicians Quotes

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician.

Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.

The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital.

He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.

I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.

He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paid.

Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.

What I call a good patient is one who, having found a good physician, sticks to him till he dies.

The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.

Physician, heal thyself.

He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

A surgeon should be young a physician old.

Every invalid is a physician.

Physician -- One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.

Hunger is not only the best cook, but also the best physician.

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist; he is either, like the surgeon, a craftsman, or, like the physician and the psychologist, an artist.

Employment is nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness.

The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.

Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest, but that all seek the good of their patients? For we have agreed that a physician strictly so called, is a ruler of bodies, and not a maker of money, have we not?

Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician.

One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself. He heals himself, by his own power, exactly as he walks by means of his own power, or eats, or thinks, breathes or sleeps.

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.

In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

The redefined physician is human, knows she's human, accepts it .

.. and she works in a culture of medicine that acknowledges that human beings run the system.

Well, first of all, let me say that I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that really didn't pay off.

Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.

The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed.

From your confessor, lawyer and physician, hide not your case on no condition.

As a physician and as a pilot, I think it lets me be a pretty good translator having one foot in the medical world and one foot in the flying world. Sometimes when the medical guys come in and speak medical stuff to the pilots, the pilots really don't know what they're saying.

The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants.

In addition the bill would expand an existing law "conscience clause" that protects physician training programs that refuse to provide training for abortion procedures.

This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experienced with the long, tormented agony and death of my mother might have influenced me in wanting to study medicine. It was not the case.

I decided I wanted to be a physician when I was seven years old.

As a physician, I understand how important it is to collect data on people so we can understand what's happening with them. I will be in the position to help enable that knowledge.

It's such a long mission and we get to spend so much time in space.

.. we're doing such exciting research. And I don't want to overemphasize the life science research, but as a physician the life science research that we're doing is extremely exciting.

We'd like to have immediate answers to all of our questions.

I think medicine in particular. I found it frustrating as a physician sometimes to not be able to tell someone exactly why something was happening to them. There are still so many mysteries in medicine.

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.

Oh, come, Divine Physician, and bind up every broken bone.

Come with Thy sacred nard which Thou hast compounded of Thine own heart's blood, and lay it home to the wounded conscience and let it feel its power. Oh! Give peace to those whose conscience is like the troubled sea which cannot rest.

Preventive medicine isn't part of a physician's everyday routine, which is spent dispensing drugs and performing surgery.

A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.

The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.