Medical doctor Quote by Anne M. Lipton

“Hippocrates was so great that today’s doctors still take the Oath of Hippocrates (though it has been modified during the 20th century)”

— Terry Deary

“Doctors are supposed to first do no harm, but when it comes to fat bodies, most doctors seem fundamentally incapable of heeding their oath.”

— Roxane Gay

“Hippocrates said let your food be your medicine and your medicine be your food.”

— Lee Vickers

“I realize that “Do No Harm” is the first rule of medicine, but “Don’t apply human shit to an open wound” seems like a…

— Jennifer Wright

“Doctors generally adhere to the Hippocratic oath, where they swear to abide by an ethical code, where they swear to act, always, in their…

— Roxane Gay

“Our responsibility, in medicine, is to deal with human beings as they are. People die only once.”

— Atul Gawande

“But physicians don’t really save lives, of course, we prolong them;”

— Robert Charles Wilson

“III. Hippocrates having cured many sicknesses, fell sick himself and died.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“The immortal words of Hippocrates, the famous Naturopath and Father of Medicine, apply here: “Let your food be your medicine and your medicine be”

— Robert Morse

“I didn’t know. But if I did not know what I wanted, I had learned something, something not found in Hippocrates, Maimonides, or Osler:…

— Paul Kalanithi

“First do no harm!”

— Sophie E. Tallis

“The doctor’s aim is to do good, even to our enemies, so much more to our friends, and my profession forbids us to do…

— Richard Colgan