There is no health; physicians say that we, at best, enjoy but neutrality. — John Donne Copy Share Image
The purse of the patient often protracts his case. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
APOTHECARY, n. The physician's accomplice, undertaker's benefactor and grave worm's provider — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The best physician is he who can distinguish the possible from the impossible. — Herophilos Copy Share Image
Basketball really had its origin in Indiana, which remains the center of the sport. — James Naismith Copy Share Image
Sexuality is not a leisure or part-time activity. It is a way of being. — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
There is a clear matter that I am not a practicing physician; I have never been a practitioner; everybody has known for… — Robert Jarvik 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
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
Ibn Firnas was a polymath: a physician, a rather bad poet, the first to make glass from stones (quartz), a student of… — Lynn Townsend White, Jr Copy Share Image
Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter. — Petrarch 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
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
In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When… — Plato Copy Share Image
It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment… — Marcia Angell Copy Share Image
Death, whether it regards ourselves or others, appears less terrible in war than at home. The cries of women and children, friends… — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
Non-Christians seem to think that the Incarnation implies some particular merit or excellence in humanity. But of course it implies just the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if he ignores… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
The most blatant forms of denialism are rarely malevolent; they combine decency, a fear of change, and the misguided desire to do… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
There are dull and bright, sacred and profane, coarse and fine egotists. It is a disease that, like influenza, falls on all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In a word, I consider hospitals only as the entrance to scientific medicine; they are the first field of observation which a… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
I do not deny that medicine is a gift of God, nor do I refuse to acknowledge science in the skill of… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
As the dominant social ethic changed from a religious to a secular one, the problem of heresy disappeared, and the problem of… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
For we are not all equally afflicted with the same disease or all in need of the same severe cure. This is… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
There are some arts which to those that possess them are painful, but to those that use them are helpful, a common… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
Matthey, a Geneva physician very close to Rousseau's influence, formulates the prospect for all men of reason: 'Do not glory in your… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“We are often given pills or fluids to help remedy illness, yet little has been taught to us about the power of… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
You are angry with your neighbor, you despise him, do not like to speak peaceably and lovingly to him, because there is… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals: for instance, I hate the tribe… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The consultant's first obligation is to the patient, not to his brother physician. — Burton J. Hendrick Copy Share Image
Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth. — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
PHYSICIAN, n. One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
If the patient has been to more than four physicians, nutrition is probably the medical answer. — Abram Hoffer Copy Share Image
The physician cannot prescribe by letter, he must feel the pulse. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
