Let the young know they will never find a more interesting, more instructive book than the patient himself. — Giorgio Baglivi Copy Share Image
Unless physicians stand together to fight threats and injustices, our practices cannot remain viable in the future. — Samuel Wilson Copy Share Image
If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is silliness to live when to live is torment, and then have we a prescription to die when death is our… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
For many doctors the achievement of a published article is a tedious duty to be surmounted as a necessary hurdle in a… — Richard Asher Copy Share Image
By examining the tongue of the patient, physicians find out the diseases of the body, and philosophers the diseases of the mind. — Justin Martyr Copy Share Image
We can have the best health insurance options in the world, and people still won't get needed care if we don't increase… — Jeff Merkley Copy Share Image
To become comfortable with uncertainty is one of the primary goals in the training of a physician. — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
No one thinks of the lab-testing experience as positive. It should be! One way to create that is to help people engage… — Elizabeth Holmes Copy Share Image
God bless the physician who warms the speculum or holds your hand and looks into your eyes. Perhaps one subtext of the… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It takes approximately forty years for innovative thought to be incorporated into mainstream thought. I expect and hope that orthomolecular medicine, within… — Abram Hoffer Copy Share Image
Ahab cast a covetous eye at Naboth's vineyard, David a lustful eye at Bathsheba. The eye is the pulse of the soul;… — Thomas Adams Copy Share Image
The experienced physician, mechanic, or physiologist looking at a wound, an engine, a microscopic preparation, "sees" things the novice does not see.… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
Men are men before they are lawyers, or physicians, or merchants, or manufacturers; and if you make them capable and sensible men,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
In respect to religion and the healing art, all nations are still in a state of barbarism. In the most civilized countries… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Medicine Man occupied the honored role of priest and physician to his tribe. They understood that healing was done by the… — Corinne Heline Copy Share Image
A person is not a democrat thanks to his ignorance of literature and the arts, nor an elitist because he or she… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
The theory of medicine, therefore, presents what is useful in thought, but does not indicate how it is to be applied in… — Avicenna 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
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
Most people assume that physician language is akin to technical, non-understandable jargon. It does not have to be that way. Doctors do… — Ann Richards 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
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
I felt more than ever the necessity of my mission. But I went home out of spirits, I hardly know why. I… — Elizabeth Blackwell Copy Share Image
We're losing a ritual. We're losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
When he can render no further aid, the physician alone can mourn as a man with his incurable patient. This is the… — Aretaeus of Cappadocia Copy Share Image
There's an opportunity for the pharmacist to play a much greater role in health care, especially with what we have going on… — Gregory Wasson Copy Share Image
The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole... For the part can never be… — Plato Copy Share Image
Creative energy is the essence of all healing...We physicians do nothing, we only help and encourage the physician within. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Physician, help yourself: thus help your patient too. Let this be his best help: that he may behold with his eyes the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The examining physician often hesitates to make the necessary examination because it involves soiling the finger. — William James Mayo Copy Share Image
My opinion is, that more harm than good is done by physicians; and I am convinced, that, had I left my patients… — Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland Copy Share Image
Was this an old disease, and, if so, which one? If it was new, what did that say about the state of… — Peter Lewis Allen Copy Share Image
Americans tend to endorse the use of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia when the question is abstract and hypothetical. — Ezekiel Emanuel Copy Share Image
Although you feel tepid, approach with confidence, for the greater your infirmity the more you stand in need of a physician. — Bonaventure Copy Share Image
He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician. — Thomas Fuller Copy Share Image
The problem for a Paracelsian physician like me is that I see diseases as disguises in which people present me with their… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia have been profound ethical issues confronting doctors since the birth of Western medicine, more than 2,000 years ago. — Ezekiel Emanuel Copy Share Image
Art stands in opposition to all the bad things that happen in life, which is where physicians stand. That's what doctors do-affirm… — Eric Avery Copy Share Image
