To a physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal. — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
Physicians think they do a lot for a patient when they give his disease a name. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Physicians think they are doing something for you by labeling what you have as a disease — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Only in education, never in the life of farmer, sailor, merchant, physician, or laboratory experimenter, does knowledge mean primarily a store of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Where once it was the physician who waged bellum contra morbum, the war against disease, now it's the whole society. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although… — Plato Copy Share Image
The true aim of medicine is not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Look around you: there is not a doctor who desires the health of his friends, not a soldier who desires peace for… — Philemon Copy Share Image
It might be that women who have beennurses should not marry physicians. They have too much respect for physicians, are taughtto have… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
The physician, to the extent he is a physician, considers only the good of the patient in what he prescribes, and his… — Plato Copy Share Image
Physicians who care for adults generally don't think about vaccines as much as pediatricians do, and adults think of vaccines as a… — Paul A. Offit Copy Share Image
I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a doctor. The doctors I knew as a very young child… — C. Everett Koop Copy Share Image
Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for… — Plato Copy Share Image
In the wake of the Supreme Court of Canada decision (Chaoulli-Zeliotis), the Canadian Medicare system is about to be redesigned. Physicians must… — Brian Day Copy Share Image
Making systems work is the great task of my generation of physicians and scientists. But I would go further and say that… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
It is easy for men to give advice, but difficult for one's self to follow; we have an example in physicians: for… — Philemon Copy Share Image
My mother - both my mother and father had very successful careers. My mother's an English professor and my father is a… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
Any man who is intelligent must, on considering that health is of the utmost value to human beings, have the personal understanding… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
And what physicians say about disease is applicable here: that at the beginning a disease is easy to cure but difficult to… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
People tend to think of breakthroughs in medicine as a new drug, a laser, or a high-tech surgical procedure. They often have… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which,… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Well into the 19th century there were pronouncements from just about every branch of science and medicine that reading, writing, and thinking… — Dale Spender Copy Share Image
Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale. Medicine, as a social science, as… — Rudolf Virchow Copy Share Image
There is a world of science necessary in choosing books. I have known some people in great sorrow fly to a novel,… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Do you conceive of your Lord as less because? He shows that humiliation is the best road to exaltation (cf. Mt. 23:12);… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
As I came through medical school, it was very exciting because physicians were reaching out to each other, between the U.S. and… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
My doctor is a family physician. He treats my family and I support his. — Phyllis Diller Copy Share Image
Ah, what a grudge I owe physicians! what mummery is their art! — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
Hope awakens courage. He who can implant courage in the human soul is the best physician. — Karl Ludwig von Knebel Copy Share Image
No organization, whether it's police or physicians or whatever, wants to have its errors held up to the light of day, but… — William P. Leahy Copy Share Image
Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Requiring military hospitals to perform elective abortions exposes the physicians, the nurses, the military personnel to move against their own personal convictions… — Rick Renzi Copy Share Image
At some time in the future scientists, physicians, mediums and healers will have to work together to perfect the science of the… — Betty Shine Copy Share Image
Physicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worse—without examining evidence which their “common sense” told them… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
