Physicians Quotes · Page 5

We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.

— Abraham Verghese

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

Fasting is the greatest remedy-- the physician within.

— Paracelsus

“I don't like people much, and I like doctors even less.”

— Star Trek: The Next Generation Episode Guide Team

DIAGNOSIS, n. A physician's forecast of disease by the patient's pulse and purse.

— Ambrose Bierce

The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.

— Abraham Verghese

Every physician almost hath his favourite disease.

— Henry Fielding

As far as physicians go, chance is more valuable than knowledge.

— Michel de Montaigne

I had rather follow you to your grave than see you owe your life to any but a regular-bred physician.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

If a physician presumes to take into consideration in his work whether life has value or not, the consequences are boundless and…

— Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland

Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.

— Ben Jonson

An osteopath is only a human engineer, who should understand all the laws governing his engine and thereby master disease.

— Andrew Taylor Still

The words ending in Ique do mocke the Physician (as Hectique, Paralitique, Apoplectique, Lethargique).

— George Herbert

Compared to the United States, physicians in Europe have a much more conservative approach to joint replacement in general.

— Allen Boyd

You must take a house beside the Physician. It will be a miracle if ye be the first sick that Christ hath…

— Samuel Rutherford

The common people say, that physicians are the class of people who kill other men in the most polite and courteous manner.

— John of Salisbury

I hear from patients who say their doctor said, 'If you want to take Vitamin C, go ahead and do it. It…

— Linus Pauling

The evidence is overwhelming that marijuana can relieve certain types of pain, nausea, vomiting and other symptoms caused by such illnesses as…

— Joycelyn Elders

If you are a physician and someone comes to see you with an absolutely incapacitating headache or a swollen arm, you don't…

— Devra Davis

In a world of discouragement, sorrow, and overmuch sin, in times when fear and despair seem to prevail, when humanity is feverish…

— Jeffrey R. Holland

We can no longer remain within our exam rooms and ignore what happens in our communities. As physicians and dentists, we must…

— Vivek Murthy

But what is quackery? It is commonly an attempt to cure the diseases of a man by addressing his body alone. There…

— Henry David Thoreau

As an atheist evolving to agnosticism, and seeking answers to whether or not belief in God is potentially rational, my life was…

— Francis Collins

Many modern (so-called) Reformers are just as dangerous as the physician who makes a wrong diagnosis of a disease. They see the…

— William J. H. Boetcker

I look upon a good physician, not so properly as a servant to nature, as one, that is a counsellor and friendly…

— Robert Boyle

Do you think that was kind? Do you think it was godlike? What would you think of a physician, if a woman…

— Helen H. Gardener

He saw merchants trading, princes hunting, mourners wailing for their dead, whores offering themselves, physicians trying to help the sick, priests determining…

— Anonymous

When two people become entangled, one person will conform to the energy of the other person. When one of them is a…

— Bruce H. Lipton

“Before you examine the body of a patient, Be patient to learn his story. For once you learn his story, You will…

— Suzy Kassem

Men have cried out to me in sincere and despairing appeal: 'Doctor, I cannot go on like this! I have everything to…

— William Duncan Silkworth

You and I, we must carry on, Gemma. I cannot afford the luxury of love. I must marry well. And now I…

— Libba Bray

By Mamun's time medical schools were extremely active in Baghdad. The first free public hospital was opened in Baghdad during the Caliphate…

— John Bagot Glubb

I decided I wanted to be a physician when I was seven years old.

— Samuel Wilson

There are three classes of human beings: men, women and women physicians.

— William Osler

There is only one cardinal rule: One must always listen to the patient.

— Oliver Sacks

True men and women are all physicians to make us well.

— C. A. Bartol

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

— Alexander Pope

I was a bad practicing physician because I was never sure of the diagnosis or of the treatment.

— Joshua Lederberg

Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.

— Marcel Proust

The least questioned assumptions are often the most questionable.

— Paul Broca