On average, physicians interrupt patients within eighteen seconds of when they begin telling their story. — Jerome Groopman Copy Share Image
Man without religion is a diseased creature, who would persuade himself he is well and needs not a physician; but woman without… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
More and more of us feel like emergency-room physicians, permanently on call, required to heal ourselves but unable to find the prescription… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
The woman who needs to be liberated most is the woman in every man, and the man who needs to be liberated… — Magnus Hirschfeld Copy Share Image
One of the first things which a physician says to his patient is, ~Let me see your tongue.~ A spiritual advisor might… — Nehemiah Adams Copy Share Image
If managing were simple, why do the majority of businesses fail? If physicians had the same success rate as executives, the medical… — Michael Martin Hammer Copy Share Image
The physician's ability to reassure the patient is a major factor in activating the body's own healing system. — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; for all… — Plato Copy Share Image
The doctors of antiquity have affirmed that love is a passion that resembles a melancholy disease. The physician Rasis prescribed, therefore, in… — Marsilio Ficino Copy Share Image
We must be careful how we flatter fools too little, or wise men too much, for the flatterer must act the very… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Like most doctors, the fanciest ones, he seemed offensively healthy, as if he kept the real secret of vitality to himself. He… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
Five hundred years before Christ some physicians of ancient India, working under the influence of the Lord Buddha, advanced the art of… — Edward Bach Copy Share Image
The choice of euthanasia becomes more serious when it takes the form of a murder committed by others on a person who… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Prayer is a force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men lifted out of sickness by the… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
Modern society includes three types of men who can never think very highly of the world--the priest, the physician, and the attorney-at-law.… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
We need more physicians on air. We understand the human being, experience and condition, and we need to be using media to… — Drew Pinsky Copy Share Image
To wade in marshes and sea margins is the destiny of certain bird, and they are so accurately made for this that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The most devastating indictment of the president's proposal is that it threatens to destroy virtually everything about American health care that's worth… — William Kristol Copy Share Image
My daughter is a practicing physician so believe me I get a lot of the frustration from her. You get it from… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
Great physicians and nurses, skilled, caring and unparalleled in their training, intervened in my life and probably saved it. I was lucky… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When a physician is called to a patient, he should decide on the diagnosis, then the prognosis, and then the treatment. ...… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Much of your pain is self-chosen. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“Until fairly recently, every family had a cornucopia of favorite home remedies--plants and household items that could be prepared to treat minor… — Karen Sullivan Copy Share Image
At whatever time highly skilled physicians shall have developed the healing of illnesses by means of foods, and shall make provision for… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
God has administered to us of the present age, a bitter draught and a harsh physician, on account of our abounding infirmities. — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
Misrepresented its own studies and the concerns of physicians suggesting the drug may increase the risk of heart problems. — Greg Abbott Copy Share Image
Nowhere is wisdom more necessary than in the guidance of charitable impulses. Meaning well is only half our duty; Thinking right is… — Samuel Gridley Howe Copy Share Image
But what physician has not had patients who don't make any sense at all? To tell the truth, they're our stock-in-trade. We… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
But as sickness and diseases have created the necessity of medicines and physicians, so the disorders of our rational nature have introduced… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
HIV/AIDs patients depend on highly trained, specialized physicians. Each and every patient has a unique combination of retrovirals they depend on to… — David Mixner Copy Share Image
I believe the doctor of the future will be a teacher as well as a physician. His real job will be to… — D. C. Jarvis Copy Share Image
It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them… — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
The famous physician Dumoulin said when dying, 'I leave two great physicians behind me, simple food and pure water.' — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Conscientious and careful physicians allocate causes of disease to natural laws, while the ablest scientists go back to medicine for their first… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
But tell me, this physician of whom you were just speaking, is he a moneymaker, an earner of fees, or a healer… — Plato Copy Share Image
The cure of many diseases remains unknown to the physicians of Hellos (Greece) because they do not study the whole person. — Socrates Copy Share Image
The role of a clown and a physician are the same - it's to elevate the possible and to relieve suffering. — Patch Adams Copy Share Image
The problem is that it takes physicians so long to accept a radical change. And the lag is unacceptable. — Eric Topol Copy Share Image
In turn, more physicians, hospitals, and other health care providers are severely limiting their practices, moving to other states, or simply not… — Jim Ryun Copy Share Image
