Physicians should be genotyped.

We ought to observe that practice which is the hardest of all-especially for young physicians-we ought to throw in no medicine at all-to abstain-to…

— John Randolph of Roanoke

'Physician, heal thyself' is more true in matters religious than mundane.

— Mahatma Gandhi

As a physician, I am embarrassed by my profession's lack of interest in healthier lifestyles. We need to change the way we approach chronic…

— Caldwell Esselstyn

Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures.

— Michel de Montaigne

Our reliance on the physician is a kind of despair of ourselves.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Physician, heal thyself.

— Luke the Evangelist

The physician knows that his little black bag can carry him only so far and that the body's own healing system is the main…

— Norman Cousins

The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician.

— Anonymous

Physicians are the cobblers, rather the botchers, of men's bodies; as the one patches our tattered clothes, so the other solders our diseased flesh.

— John Ford

A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.

— Alexander Pope

Whenever a great physician treats diseases, he has to be mentally calm and his disposition firm. He should not give way to wishes and…

— Sun Simiao

Doctors frequently get it wrong. One out of five patients today is in the hospital because incorrect treatment by a physician put him or…

— Andrew Saul

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

— Thomas Fuller

Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

And it has been sarcastically said, that there is a wide difference between a good physician and a bad one, but a small difference…

— Gilbert Blane