Every Alchymist is a Physician or a Sope-boyler.

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Physician, heal thyself.

— Luke the Evangelist

Well, I would never do a study because I'm a practicing physician. I mean, all I do is treat people.

— Robert Atkins

I became a physician in order to help save lives. I am at once a physician, a citizen, and a woman, and I am…

— Mildred Fay Jefferson

There is a clear matter that I am not a practicing physician; I have never been a practitioner; everybody has known for decades.

— Robert Jarvik

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a…

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more than even the whole man—he must view the man in his world.”

— Harvey Cushing

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

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

— Alexander Pope

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

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

— Anonymous

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

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