There are three classes of human beings: men, women and women physicians. — William Osler Copy Share Image
DIAGNOSIS, n. A physician's forecast of disease by the patient's pulse and purse. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician. — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Silence is a trick when it imposes. Pedants and scholars, churchmen and physicians, abound in silent pride. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
The single greatest impediment to error prevention in the medical industry is that we punish people for making mistakes, — Lucian Leape Copy Share Image
If popular medicine gave the people wisdom as well as knowledge, it would be the best protection for scientific and well-trained physicians. — Rudolf Virchow 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
You are also the physician who must watch over yourself. But in the course of every illness there are many days in… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Employment, which Galen calls 'Nature's Physician,' is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery. — Robert A. Burton Copy Share Image
There are more old drunkards than old physicians. [Fr., Il y a plus de vieux ivrongnes qu'il y a de vieux medecins.] — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
In my own experience as a physician, I have not seen a miraculous healing, and I don't expect to see one. — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
Irregular contact with doctors means many men fail to receive any preventive care for potentially life-threatening conditions. In addition, when men do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For each of the four hundred and four bodily ailments celebrated physicians have produced infallible remedies, but the malady which brings the… — Ihara Saikaku 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
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
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
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
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
The doctors of antiquity have affirmed that love is a passion that resembles a melancholy disease. The physician Rasis prescribed, therefore, in… — Marsilio Ficino 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
I look upon a good physician, not so properly as a servant to nature, as one, that is a counsellor and friendly… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
Do you think that was kind? Do you think it was godlike? What would you think of a physician, if a woman… — Helen H. Gardener 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
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
I came from an educated, upper middle-class family. My mother was a Persian and history teacher at a large high school for… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
At first the analysing physician could do no more than discover the unconscious material that was concealed from the patient, put it… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The AMA virtually stopped the Rife treatment in 1939, first by threatening the physicians using Rife's instrument, then by forcing Rife into… — Barry Lynes Copy Share Image
We've been finding that when you empower engineers, scientists, and coders, they respond by creating new tools to empower physicians, patients, and… — Kathleen Sebelius Copy Share Image
Doctors can do almost anything nowadays, can't they, unless they kill you while they're trying to cure you. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
The most dangerous physicians are those born actors who imitate born physicians with a perfectly deceptive guile. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The most important thing to remember about food labels is that you should avoid foods that have labels. — Joel Fuhrman Copy Share Image
Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
They are the best physicians, who being great in learning most incline to the traditions of experience, or being distinguished in practice… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
It is incident to physicians, I am afraid, beyond all other men, to mistake subsequence for consequence. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A major feature of life at the NIH in late 1960s was the extraordinary offering of evening courses for physicians attempting to… — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
“Burnout also leads to a large swath of physicians who aren't as empathetic toward their patients as they could be.” — Danielle Ofri 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
A physician who treated mental cases says that he based his diagnosis on the way his patients moved: "The body never lies"… — Gerald Jonas 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