Physician Quotes

275 Physician quotes by 191 unique authors

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. ItÂ´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
Doctor Johnson said, that in sickness there were three things that were material; the physician, the disease, and the patient: and if any two of… — Francis Bacon
I look upon a good physician, not so properly as a servant to nature, as one, that is a counsellor and friendly assistant, who, in… — Robert Boyle
I am a physician. I keep a drug-shop of lies. I give relief, consolation. Can one console and relieve without lying? ... Only women and… — Anatole France
My mother - both my mother and father had very successful careers. My mother's an English professor and my father is a scientist and physician.… — David Plotz
Physician, help yourself: thus help your patient too. Let this be his best help: that he may behold with his eyes the man who heals… — Friedrich Nietzsche

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