Physician Quotes

275 Physician quotes by 191 unique authors

Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician. — Ben Jonson
Every physician almost hath his favourite disease. — Henry Fielding
I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician. I think it's very upfront. I am a doctor. I have long experience with heart disease. — Robert Jarvik
There is a clear matter that I am not a practicing physician; I have never been a practitioner; everybody has known for decades. — Robert Jarvik
The patient must combat the disease along with the physician. — Hippocrates
From the physician and lawyer keep not the truth hidden. — John Florio
British physician, West African Countries and Peoples Man's place is higher than the sky. Respect for man is the underlying spirit of civilization. — Muhammad Iqbal
I think the way we think about cancer, the way we treat cancer, has dramatically changed in the last century. There is an enormous amount… — Siddhartha Mukherjee
I am a scientist and I am a physician. So I write papers. — Siddhartha Mukherjee
Prayer works in the mind as a healing force. It calms the patient, enlightens the physician, guides the surgeon, and it often victoriously applies the… — Wilferd Peterson
In acute diseases the physician must conduct his inquiries in the following way. First he must examine the face of the patient, and see whether… — Hippocrates
As a physician, I understand how important it is to collect data on people so we can understand what's happening with them. I will be… — Laurel Clark
As lower-cost phones begin to penetrate, they'll become the educator and physician everywhere on the planet. — Peter Diamandis
My father, who grew up picking olives on the Greek island of Lesbos, was a doctor. So my family expected me to become a physician. — Peter Diamandis
Americans tend to endorse the use of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia when the question is abstract and hypothetical. — Ezekiel Emanuel
Patients who are being kept alive by technology and want to end their lives already have a recognized constitutional right to stop any and all… — Ezekiel Emanuel
Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia have been profound ethical issues confronting doctors since the birth of Western medicine, more than 2,000 years ago. — Ezekiel Emanuel
Where once it was the physician who waged bellum contra morbum, the war against disease, now it's the whole society. — Susan Sontag
My mother, a teacher, encouraged me to use my creativity as an actual way to make a living, and my father, a Mississippi physician, did… — Greg Iles
Medicine really matured me as a person because, as a physician, you're obviously dealing with life and death issues, issues much more serious than what… — Ken Jeong
The Christian Bible is a drug store. It´s contents have remained the same but the medical practice continues. For 1,800 years these changes were slight--scarcely… — Mark Twain
Medicine is not merely a science but an art. The character of the physician may act more powerfully upon the patient than the drugs employed. — Paracelsus
Otis Brawley is one of America's truly outstanding physician scientists. In How We Do Harm, he challenges all of us-- physicians, patients, and communities-- to… — David Satcher
The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician. — Abraham Verghese
I trained initially as a physical chemist, and then, after becoming interested in biology, I went to medical school and learned how to be a… — Francis Collins

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