The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease. — William Osler
Good physicians are rarely dispassionate. They agonize and self-doubt over patients. — Siddhartha Mukherjee
A physician who treats himself has a fool for a patient. — William Osler
Every physician must be rich in knowledge, and not only of that which is written in books; his patients should be his book, they will never mislead him. — Paracelsus
You ought to choose both physician and friend, not the most agreeable, but the most useful. — Epictetus
The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy -- to heal, as it is termed. — Samuel Hahnemann
Only those who regard healing as the ultimate goal of their efforts can, therefore, be designated as physicians. — Sayings
Personally, I have always felt that the best doctor in the world is the Veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the matter...he's just got to know. — Will Rogers
Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm. — Hippocrates
The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it — Maimonides
The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head. — William Osler
A successful surgeon should be a man who, when asked to name the three best surgeons in the world, would have difficulty deciding on the other two. — Denton Cooley
Medicine is intention. Those who are proficient at using intention are good doctors. — Sun Simiao
Short Good Physician Quotes
A doctor who keeps a person from becoming ill deserves more merit than one who cures him. — Vincent de Paul
He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician. — Thomas Fuller
The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
Physician Quotes
Herbs are the friend of the physician and the pride of cooks. — Charlemagne
How people die remains in the memory of those who live on — Cicely Saunders
I am a missionary, heart and soul. God had an only Son, and He was a missionary and a physician. I am a poor, poor imitation of Him, or wish to be. In this service I hope to live; in it I wish to die! — David Livingstone
Persist to overcome. He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.
By examining the tongue of the patient, physicians find out the diseases of the body, and philosophers the diseases of the mind. — Justin Martyr
The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind. — Paracelsus
The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest. — William Osler
Just do what works for you, because there will always be someone who thinks differently.
I early conceived a liking for, and sought every opportunity to relieve the sufferings of others. — Rebecca Lee Crumpler
There are three classes of human beings: men, women and women physicians. — William Osler
Basketball really had its origin in Indiana, which remains the center of the sport. — James Naismith
Employment is nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness. — Galen
Good Doctors Quotes
Doctors, good doctors, are doing unthinkable things, like injecting biologically active messenger RNA that produces this pathological spike protein into pregnant women. I think when the doctors wake up from their trance they’re going to be shocked to think what they’ve done to people. — Peter A. McCullough
Demons run when a good man goes to war. Night will fall and drown the sun when a good man goes to war. Friendship dies and true love lies. Night will fall and the dark will rise when a good man goes to war. Demons run but count the cost; the battle's won but the child is lost. — Steven Moffat
I only got a seventh-grade education, but I have a doctorate in funk, and I like to put that to good use — James Brown
Never regret a day in your life: good days give happiness, bad days give experience, worst days give lessons, and best days give memories.
History is life; he who has not lived, or has lived only enough to write a doctoral dissertation, is too inexperienced with life to write good history. — Louis Moreau Gottschalk
As with eggs, there is no such thing as a poor doctor, doctors are either good or bad. — Sayings
A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book. — Irish Proverbs
Whatever is good for you soul, do that.
There is no demand for women engineers, as such, as there are for women doctors; but there's always a demand for anyone who can do a good piece of work. — Edith Clarke
First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me. — Steve Martin
Finding out which physician had lost the smallest percentage of his practice through death would not be a good way to pick a superb doctor. — Philip Arthur Fisher
While the authority of the doctor or plumber is never questioned, everyone deems himself a good judge and an adequate arbiter of what a work of art should be and how it should be done. — Mark Rothko
Nowhere is wisdom more necessary than in the guidance of charitable impulses. Meaning well is only half our duty; Thinking right is the other, and equally important, half. — Samuel Gridley Howe
It is well known among physicians that the best of the nourishing foods is the one that the Moslem religion forbids, i.e., Wine. It contains much good and light nourishment. It is rapidly digested and helps to digest other foods. — Maimonides
Try no to resist the changes that come in your way. Instead, let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come? How Rumi Can Change Your Life?
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind; therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest. — Swami Vivekananda
Every one should be his own physician. We ought to assist, and not to force nature. Eat with moderation...Nothing is good for the body but what we can digest. What medicine can procure digestion? Exercise. What will recruit strength? Sleep. — Voltaire
Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician. — Sayings
I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it. — Abraham Verghese
The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm. — Hippocrates
He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies. — Tacitus
As any doctor can tell you, the most crucial step toward healing is having the right diagnosis. If the disease is precisely identified, a good resolution is far more likely. Conversely, a bad diagnosis usually means a bad outcome, no matter how skilled the physician. — Andrew Weil
Physicians, of all men, are most happy; whatever good success soever they have, the world proclaimeth; and what faults they commit, the earth covereth. — Francis Quarles
What I call a good patient is one who, having found a good physician, sticks to him till he dies. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Ahab cast a covetous eye at Naboth's vineyard, David a lustful eye at Bathsheba. The eye is the pulse of the soul; as physicians judge of the heart by the pulse, so we by the eye; a rolling eye, a roving heart. The good eye keeps minute time, and strikes when it should; the lustful, crochet-time, and so puts all out of tune. — Thomas Adams
My opinion is, that more harm than good is done by physicians; and I am convinced, that, had I left my patients to nature, instead of prescribing drugs, more would have been saved. — Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland
And it has been sarcastically said, that there is a wide difference between a good physician and a bad one, but a small difference between a good physician and no physician at all; by which it is meant to insinuate, that the mischievous officiousness of art does commonly more than counterbalance any benefit derivable from it. — Gilbert Blane
All knowledge attains its ethical value and its human significance only by the human sense with which it is employed. Only a good man can be a great physician. — Hermann Nothnagel
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? — Plato
War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings. The earthquake means good business for construction workers, and cholera improves the business of physicians, pharmacists, and undertakers; but no one has for that reason yet sought to celebrate earthquakes and cholera as stimulators of the productive forces in the general interest. — Ludwig von Mises
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. — David M. Brown
My daughter is a practicing physician so believe me I get a lot of the frustration from her. You get it from patients. For me personally, when I ask my doctor to send me my record, what I get is a scanned PDF of his hard copy! This is not good. It would be hopeless to work with a million people if you had to do this on paper, and one of the reasons this is the right time for this is because of the existence of EHRs. — Francis Collins
They [rulers] must act like a good physician who, when gangrene has set in proceeds without mercy to cut, saw, and burn flesh, veins, bone, and marrow. Such a procedure must also be followed in this instance. Burn down their synagogues, forbid all that I enumerated earlier, force them to work, and deal harshly with them, as Moses did... If this does not help we must drive them out like mad dogs. — Martin Luther
I'm climbing into a vehicle that has a powerful influence on our culture. I'd like to make it do something good. The media is populated with attorneys, psychologists and pundits but there are only three physicians: me, Dr. Oz and Sanjay Gupta. We are the only MDs who practice medicine and have board certifications in one or two fields. That's it. — Drew Pinsky
There is a great difference between a good physician and a bad one; yet very little between a good one and none at all. — Arthur Young
When a doctor refuses money, even the most ethical ones, you usually start driving a good bargain with the undertaker. — Sue Sanders
A review of studies by physicians found that excessive exercise is bad for your heart. Another study says a daily serving of chocolate is actually good for your heart. That's got to make next year New Year's resolution easier to keep. "I'm going to exercise less. Eat a little more chocolate. — Jay Leno
I have the same opinion of dances that physicians have of mushrooms: the best of them are good for nothing. — Saint Francis de Sales
I hear from patients who say their doctor said, 'If you want to take Vitamin C, go ahead and do it. It won't harm you, and it may do you some good.' More and more physicians are getting convinced about the value of large doses of Vitamin C. — Linus Pauling
The physician, to the extent he is a physician, considers only the good of the patient in what he prescribes, and his own not at all — Plato
If I had to choose between putting a saloon or a liberal church on a corner, I'd choose the saloon every time. People who drink up the pay check in the saloon are less likely to become Pharisees, thinking that they don't need the Great Physician, than those who weekly swill the soporific doctrine of man's goodness. — Jay Adams
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. This means that in order to be a good doctor a man must also have a good character, that is to say, whatever weaknesses and foibles he may have, he must love his fellow human beings in the concrete and desire their good before his own. — W. H. Auden
A man without persistence will never make a good shaman or a good physician. — Confucius
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