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Physician Quotes by Abraham Verghese
- We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
- 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,…
- We're losing a ritual. We're losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.
- The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
- We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget,…
- I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and…
- My desire to be a physician had a lot to do with that sense of medicine as a ministry of healing, not just a science.…
- I write by stealing time. The hours in the day have never felt as if they belonged to me. The greatest number has belonged to…
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- Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient. — Ambrose Bierce
- A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness, leaving… — Elizabeth Blackwell
- A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of… — Samuel Butler
- As a father, physician and nurse, I have a special place in my heart for children, and I know the brief window… — Richard Carmona
- You know, I'm a physician. I like to diagnose things. And, you know, I've diagnosed some pretty, pretty significant issues that I… — Benjamin Carson
- I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had… — Giacomo Casanova
- Preventive medicine isn't part of a physician's everyday routine, which is spent dispensing drugs and performing surgery. — Deepak Chopra
- For the spear was a desert physician, That cured not a few of ambition, And drave not a few to perdition, With… — James Elroy Flecker
- A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal. — Alexander Pope
- The first [quality] to be named must always be the power of attention, of giving one's whole mind to the patient without… — Wilfred Trotter
- As a physician, I recommend nutritious hemp seeds and oil to anyone interested in maintaining a healthy diet. Everyone will benefit when… — Andrew Weil
- We must be careful how we flatter fools too little, or wise men too much, for the flatterer must act the very… — Charles Caleb Colton