Physicians Quotes

419 quotes by 296 authors

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
As he approached the place where a meeting of doctors was being held, he saw some elegant limousines and remarked, "The surgeons have arrived." Then… — Walter Bradford Cannon
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 cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole... For the part can never be well unless the… — Plato
At some time in the future scientists, physicians, mediums and healers will have to work together to perfect the science of the whole. — Betty Shine
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
In a world of discouragement, sorrow, and overmuch sin, in times when fear and despair seem to prevail, when humanity is feverish with no worldly… — Jeffrey R. Holland
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
APOTHECARY, n. The physician's accomplice, undertaker's benefactor and grave worm's provider — Ambrose Bierce
BODY-SNATCHER, n. A robber of grave-worms. One who supplies the young physicians with that with which the old physicians have supplied the undertaker. — Ambrose Bierce
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

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