Doctor Quote by Ambrose Bierce Download Open image “PHYSICIAN, n. One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.” — Ambrose Bierce ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Doctor Dog Health Hope Hopes Ill Humour Ill Ill Dogs Medicine Physician Physician Set Physicians Science Set Hopes Wells
The physician...is the flower (such as it is) of our civilization. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Only those who regard healing as the ultimate goal of their efforts can, therefore, be designated as physicians. — Rudolf Virchow Copy Share Image
Every animal has itsself own doctor, when the sick,whom medicine to take know him very well, he tries to find that. — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
The doctor I would want for myself or for anyone else I cared about would be one who understands that disease is more than… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
A physician is an unfortunate gentleman who is every day required to perform a miracle; namely to reconcile health with intemperance. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
There is no physician like Him, none can save as He can; we love Him, and He loves us, and therefore we put ourselves… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
A doctor is a man who writes prescriptions, till the patient either dies or is cured by nature. — John Taylor Copy Share Image
My job as a physician is to make sure I have provided my patients with the best options to make the decisions that affect… — Ami Bera Copy Share Image
OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critics. Obsession was once more common than it is now. Arasthus… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it./ Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it)/ At work… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
RUBBISH, n. Worthless matter, such as the religions, philosophies, literatures, arts and sciences of the tribes infesting the regions lying due south from Boreaplas. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
There was never a genius who was not thought a fool until he disclosed himself; whereas he is a fool then only. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is devoid of the dignity of character distinguishing him who… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Many patients imagine that they have tried everything. True, they have used many remedies, but they have never had the cause of their infirmity… — Daniel D. Palmer Copy Share Image
I think people need to be comfortable questioning the authority of a doctor. — Susannah Cahalan Copy Share Image
The doctor who diagnosed me with ALS, or motor neuron disease, told me that it would kill me in two or three years. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“As a special branch of general philosophy, pathogenesis had never been explored. In my opinion it had never been approached in a strictly scientific… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
A creative space is an important thing. There are so many studios that feel like doctor's offices in Nashville. I couldn't write there. — Brad Paisley Copy Share Image
We ought to observe that practice which is the hardest of all-especially for young physicians-we ought to throw in no medicine at all-to abstain-to… — John Randolph of Roanoke Copy Share Image
The miracle drugs (neuroleptics) cause the worst plague of brain damage in medical history. — Peter Breggin Copy Share Image
“old-fashioned, gentle Scottish physician, unmoved by the considerations of profit and personal gain that could so disfigure medicine. That doctors should consider themselves businessmen… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
I've never bought this idea of taking a therapeutic distance. If I see a student or house staff cry, I take great faith in… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Heart surgeons do not have the world's smallest egos: when you ask them to name the world's three leading practitioners, they never can remember… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
Thankfully, I found a doctor at Presbyterian Hospital in New York, Scott Hammer, who diagnosed my chronic fatigue as the Epstein-Barr virus, and the… — Tucker Halpern Copy Share Image
