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
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
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
There is but one power which heals—that is God. The state or condition through which the healing takes place is the confidence… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
I'm climbing into a vehicle that has a powerful influence on our culture. I'd like to make it do something good. The… — Drew Pinsky Copy Share Image
As a physician and a U.S. senator, I have warned since the very beginning about many troubling aspects of Mr. Obama's unprecedented… — John Barrasso Copy Share Image
The daily clinical experience of thousands of massage therapists, physical therapists, and physicians strongly indicates that most of our common aches and… — Clair Davies Copy Share Image
I agree that marijuana laws are overdue for an overhaul. I also favor the medical use of marijuana -- if it's prescribed… — Abigail Van Buren Copy Share Image
I am not impressed with what people own. But I’m impressed with what they achieve. I’m proud to be a physician. Always… — Thomas J. Stanley Copy Share Image
We are not clear as to the role in life of these chemicals; nor are we clear as to the role of… — Alan Watts 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
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 Copy Share Image
“Before you examine the body of a patient, Be patient to learn his story. For once you learn his story, You will… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
During terms, Professor Marsden lives in Cambridge with his wife, chess player extraordinaire and distinguished physician and surgeon Bryony Asquith Marsden. His… — Sherry Thomas Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
He saw merchants trading, princes hunting, mourners wailing for their dead, whores offering themselves, physicians trying to help the sick, priests determining… — Anonymous 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
The physician himself, if sick, actually calls in another physician, knowing that he cannot reason correctly if required to judge his own… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Every physician must be rich in knowledge, and not only of that which is written in books; his patients should be his… — Paracelsus Copy Share Image
Preventive medicine isn't part of a physician's everyday routine, which is spent dispensing drugs and performing surgery. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick. — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
There is a great difference between a good physician and a bad one; yet very little between a good one and none… — Arthur Young Copy Share Image
I'm a medical doctor by training. I'm a physician, not a politician. And I'm in this as a mother on fire. — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
I early conceived a liking for, and sought every opportunity to relieve the sufferings of others. — Rebecca Lee Crumpler Copy Share Image
Let the young know they will never find a more interesting, more instructive book than the patient himself. — Giorgio Baglivi Copy Share Image
I affiliated with Physicians for Social Responsibility early on, and actually, their major thrust wasn't nearly as much around community health centers,… — Jill Stein 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
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
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
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
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
