Physicians Quotes · Page 7

The consultant's first obligation is to the patient, not to his brother physician.

— Burton J. Hendrick

The best physician is he who can distinguish the possible from the impossible.

— Herophilos

Basketball really had its origin in Indiana, which remains the center of the sport.

— James Naismith

The purse of the patient often protracts his case.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

APOTHECARY, n. The physician's accomplice, undertaker's benefactor and grave worm's provider

— Ambrose Bierce

I am dying with the help of too many physicians.

— Alexander the Great

There is no health; physicians say that we, at best, enjoy but neutrality.

— John Donne

The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.

— Hippocrates

A physician, after he had felt the pulse of Pausanias, and considered his constitution, saying, "He ails nothing," "It is because, sir,"…

— Plutarch

Only the doctor and the judge have the right to inflict the death penalty without receiving the same.

— Philemon

There's absolutely no reason at all that physicians, scientists, shouldn't be involved in things that affect all of us.

— Benjamin Carson

Most physicians regard abortion as a stigmatized operation done by people who are otherwise incompetent and can't do anything else.

— Warren Hern

Christ is never fully valued, until sin is clearly seen. We must know the depth and malignity of our disease, in order…

— J. C. Ryle

Physicians still retain something of their priestly origin; they would gladly do what they forbid.

— Otto von Bismarck

Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome.

— Carroll O'Connor

A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.

— Voltaire

Any physician who advertises a positive cure for any disease, who issues nostrum testimonials, who sells his services to a secret remedy,…

— Samuel Hopkins Adams

This is where the strength of the physician lies, be he a quack, a homeopath or an allopath. He supplies the perennial…

— Leo Tolstoy

Few diseases present greater difficulties in the way of diagnosis than malignant endocarditis, difficulties which in many cases are practi- cally insurmountable.…

— William Osler

I would say to young physicians that the more you intentionally improve the lives of the people in the community you serve…

— Samuel Wilson

Some persons will tell you, with an air of the miraculous, that they recovered although they were given over; whereas they might…

— Charles Caleb Colton

I think if a physician wrote on a death certificate that old age was the cause of death, he'd be thrown out…

— George Wald

I feel that the recent ruling of the United States Army and Navy regarding the refusal of colored blood donors is an…

— Charles R. Drew

If one has a routine colonoscopy at the age of 50 and then colonoscopies thereafter as the physician recommends, you could largely…

— Laurie Glimcher

It is when physicians are bogged down by their incomplete technologies, by the innumerable things they are obliged to do in medicine…

— Lewis Thomas

The Christian Bible is a drug store. It´s contents have remained the same but the medical practice continues. For 1,800 years these…

— Mark Twain

Laplace considers astronomy a science of observation, because we can only observe the movements of the planets; we cannot reach them, indeed,…

— Claude Bernard

The first [quality] to be named must always be the power of attention, of giving one's whole mind to the patient without…

— Wilfred Trotter

But he alone having reached our deep corruption, he alone having taken upon himself our labors, he alone having suffered the punishments…

— Eusebius

Physician Albert Scheweitzer said. " We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness." Professor Leo Buscaglia notes,…

— Gary Chapman

...Only physicians are likely to be regarded as competent to judge the qualifications of potential physicians, so licensing boards in the various…

— Milton Friedman

as a physician I examine the dying planet as I do a dying patient. The earth has a natural system of interacting…

— Helen Caldicott

Medical men do not know the drugs they use, nor their prices.

— Francis Bacon

I am a scientist and I am a physician. So I write papers.

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

It is said to be the manner of hypochondriacs to change often their physician...

— William C. Bryant

Good physicians are rarely dispassionate. They agonize and self-doubt over patients.

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

My parents both are physicians, and my grandfathers were both physicians.

— Hill Harper

The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.

— Vernon Howard

The physician must not only be the healer, but often the consoler.

— Anonymous

Physicians are like kings- They brook no contradiction.

— John Webster