Book Quote by Anthony Trollope

“Am I not as much a doctor as they? I too have my patients; in the first place, theirs, whom they call sick; and…

— Victor Hugo

The Country Doctor Revisited is a fine achievement. Purporting to be an overview of the practice of medicine in rural areas, it is a…

— Richard Selzer

Within every patient there resides a doctor, and we as physicians are at our best when we we put our patients in touch with…

— Albert Schweitzer

A beautiful literary collection that tells of today's country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but still fulfilling…

— Abraham Verghese

The ideal doctor is patient.

— Robert Haven Schauffler

We sometimes think that the best doctors are the ones who have the most specialized knowledge or the fanciest degrees, but in fact, study…

— Shawn Achor

The old fashioned family physician and general practitioner ... was a splendid figure and useful person in his day; but he was badly trained,…

— Charles Loomis Dana

“There were two classes of persons upon whom a duty of virtually absolute confidentiality rested: doctors and lovers.”

— Alexander McCall Smith

The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.

— Paracelsus

“As the Readers’s Digest once said: ‘Many persons call a doctor when all they want is an audience.”

— Dale Carnegie

Each patient carries his own doctor inside him.

— Norman Cousins

A doctor may know more than a peasant, but a peasant and a doctor know more together.

— Dan Buettner