Physician Quotes
275 Physician quotes by 191 unique authors
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The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special…
— Hippocrates
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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
— Hippocrates
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I resisted using EHRs while an internist in Boston, as I wrote in my blog, ‘Why Be a Meaningful User.’ Over time, however, I found…
— David Blumenthal
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The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed.
— Samuel Hahnemann
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Fasting is the greatest remedy-- the physician within.
— Paracelsus
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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.
— Hester Lynch Piozzi
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Prayer is the force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men, after all other therapy had failed, lifted out of…
— Alexis Carrel
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As a physician, I know many doctors want to utilize new technology, but they find the cost prohibitive.
— Nathan Deal
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The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still.
— Daniel Nathans
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It is possible to be a meta-physician without believing in a transcendent reality; for we shall see that many metaphysical utterances are due to the…
— A.J. Ayer
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Christ is never fully valued, until sin is clearly seen. We must know the depth and malignity of our disease, in order to appreciate the…
— J C Ryle
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I am a missionary, heart and soul. God had an only Son, and He was a missionary and a physician. I am a poor, poor…
— David Livingstone
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
— Abraham Verghese
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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be. I had an uncle who,…
— Abraham Verghese
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As a physician I have sympathy for patients suffering from pain and other medical conditions. Although I understand many believe marijuana is the most effective…
— Bill Frist
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Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if he ignores these two great…
— Ernst Mayr
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The best physician is also a philosopher.
— Galen
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I became a physician in order to help save lives. I am at once a physician, a citizen, and a woman, and I am not…
— Mildred Fay Jefferson
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Given one has before oneself a strong, healthy, youth rich in spirited blood and a powerless, weak, cachectic old man scarcely capable of breathing. If…
— Andreas Libavius
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But what is quackery? It is commonly an attempt to cure the diseases of a man by addressing his body alone. There is need of…
— Henry David Thoreau
Who Wrote These Physician Quotes
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