Physicians Quotes

419 quotes by 296 authors

The role of a clown and a physician are the same - it's to elevate the possible and to relieve suffering. — Patch Adams
A physician who fails to enter the body of a patient with the lamp of knowledge and understanding can never treat diseases. He should first… — Charaka
A doctor is nothing more than consolation for the spirit. — Petronius
After all we are merely the servants of the public, in spite of our M.D.'s and our hospital appointments. — Henry Howarth Bashford
As with eggs, there is no such thing as a poor doctor, doctors are either good or bad. — Fuller Albright
DIAGNOSIS, n. A physician's forecast of disease by the patient's pulse and purse. — Ambrose Bierce
Doctors can do almost anything nowadays, can't they, unless they kill you while they're trying to cure you. — Agatha Christie
Every Alchymist is a Physician or a Sope-boyler. — Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
For many doctors the achievement of a published article is a tedious duty to be surmounted as a necessary hurdle in a medical career. — Richard Asher
General practice is at least as difficult, if it is to be carried on well and successfully, as any special practice can be, and probably… — Henry Howarth Bashford
Given one well-trained physician of the highest type and he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists. — William James Mayo
Imprisoned quacks are always replaced by new ones. — Rudolf Virchow
Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing… — Hippocrates
It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients. — Aristotle
Laplace considers astronomy a science of observation, because we can only observe the movements of the planets; we cannot reach them, indeed, to alter their… — Claude Bernard
Look around you: there is not a doctor who desires the health of his friends, not a soldier who desires peace for his country. — Philemon
Only the doctor and the judge have the right to inflict the death penalty without receiving the same. — Philemon
Only those who regard healing as the ultimate goal of their efforts can, therefore, be designated as physicians. — Rudolf Virchow
Physicians still retain something of their priestly origin; they would gladly do what they forbid. — Otto von Bismarck
The examining physician often hesitates to make the necessary examination because it involves soiling the finger. — William James Mayo

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