Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be. I had… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
...as our friend Zach has often noted, in our days those who do the best for astronomy are not the salaried university… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
Any physician who advertises a positive cure for any disease, who issues nostrum testimonials, who sells his services to a secret remedy,… — Samuel Hopkins Adams Copy Share Image
Trials and tribulations offer us a chance to make reparation for our past faults and sins. On such occasions the Lord comes… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The old fashioned family physician and general practitioner ... was a splendid figure and useful person in his day; but he was… — Charles Loomis Dana Copy Share Image
Patients who are being kept alive by technology and want to end their lives already have a recognized constitutional right to stop… — Ezekiel Emanuel Copy Share Image
Physicians need to be good technicians and know how to prescribe, but for healing to occur they also need to incorporate philosophy… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
A physician who fails to enter the body of a patient with the lamp of knowledge and understanding can never treat diseases.… — Charaka Copy Share Image
While there are cases where even the law recognizes an abortion as justifiable if recommended by a physician, I assert that the… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
I tell patients that tranquilizers alone never cure anyone. They merely reduce the intensity of the symptoms and make life slightly more… — Abram Hoffer Copy Share Image
Wisdom is not mathematical, nor astronomical, nor zoological; when it talks too much of any one thing it ceases to be itself.… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
A careful physician . . . before he attempts to administer a remedy to his patient, must investigate not only the malady… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
as the physicians say it happens in hectic fever, that in the beginning of the malady it is easy to cure but… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Reasoning based on cost has been strenuously resisted; it violated the Hippocratic Oath, was associated with rationing, and derided as putting a… — Ezekiel Emanuel Copy Share Image
Some people think plant-based diet, whole foods diet is extreme. Half a million people a year will have their chests opened up… — Caldwell Esselstyn Copy Share Image
The physicians belief in the treatment and the patients faith in the physician exert a mutually reinforcing effect; the result is a… — Petr Skrabanek Copy Share Image
The famous Greek physician Hippocrates administered musical treatments to his patients in 400 B.C. Although this type of treatment did not originate… — Corinne Heline Copy Share Image
When it comes to physicians there is a common thread that is a major barrier to solving our concerns. We are divided.… — Brian Day Copy Share Image
The pubic bones (seen on x ray) are now well defined and represent a remarkable rebuilding of bone and halting of the… — Robert Willner Copy Share Image
The mind and body are not separate units, but one integrated system. How we act and what we think, eat, and feel… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
We do not accost a physician as we do any mere nobody; nor a magistrate as we do a private individual. We… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
Most psychologists treat the mind as disembodied, a phenomenon with little or no connection to the physical body. Conversely, physicians treat the… — Candace Pert Copy Share Image
anything being perceived as being superior takes the noun. And everything that isn't, that's judged to be inferior, requires an adjective. So… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I was born in a middle class Muslim family, in a small town called Myonenningh in a northern part of Bangladesh in… — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
We are not going back. We are not returning to the days of back-room abortions, when countless women died or were maimed.… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
I don't understand, given the constraints physicians have in doing their job and the paperwork demanded of them, why people want to… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I think there's a lack of understanding which is partly our fault as scientists and physicians in not communicating well enough with… — Laurie Glimcher Copy Share Image
As a physician, I recommend nutritious hemp seeds and oil to anyone interested in maintaining a healthy diet. Everyone will benefit when… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
I am a physician. I keep a drug-shop of lies. I give relief, consolation. Can one console and relieve without lying? ...… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Culture matters. Of course, if physicians are rewarded or penalized for their service and results, the culture will change. But the key… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
Otis Brawley is one of America's truly outstanding physician scientists. In How We Do Harm, he challenges all of us-- physicians, patients,… — David Satcher Copy Share Image
The means by which I preserve my own health are, temperance, early rising, and spunging the body every morning with cold water,… — Astley Cooper Copy Share Image
The world is deathly ill. It is dying. The Great Physician has already signed the death certificate. Yet, there is still a… — Corrie Ten Boom Copy Share Image
There are other dimensions of biotechnology. If you think of biotechnology like the Internet, it's not a category - it's an infrastructure… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
We physicians have focused on the nuclear threat as the singular issue of our era. We are not indifferent to other human… — Bernard Lown Copy Share Image
Physician of the Iron Age, Goethe has done his pilgrimage. He took the suffering human race, He read each wound, each weakness… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Part of my training was learning how to refer patients to cardiologists for heart problems, gastroenterologists for stomach issues, and rheumatologists for… — Mark Hyman Copy Share Image
Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
By establishing a social policy that keeps physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia illegal but recognizes exceptions, we would adopt the correct moral view:… — Ezekiel Emanuel Copy Share Image
I want to be able to look back someday and say, "I did make a difference." Whether is was to open the… — Antonia Novello Copy Share Image
