Physicians Quotes

419 quotes by 296 authors

Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if he ignores these two great… — Ernst Mayr
The freedom of patient speech is necessary if the doctor is to get clues about the medical enigma before him. If the patient is inhibited,… — Jerome Groopman
On average, physicians interrupt patients within eighteen seconds of whenÂ they begin telling their story. — Jerome Groopman
The best physician is also a philosopher. — Galen
Most physicians regard abortion as a stigmatized operation done by people who are otherwise incompetent and can't do anything else. — Warren Hern
I became a physician in order to help save lives. I am at once a physician, a citizen, and a woman, and I am not… — Mildred Fay Jefferson
Given one has before oneself a strong, healthy, youth rich in spirited blood and a powerless, weak, cachectic old man scarcely capable of breathing. If… — Andreas Libavius
But what is quackery? It is commonly an attempt to cure the diseases of a man by addressing his body alone. There is need of… — Henry David Thoreau
Death a friend that alone can bring the peace his treasures cannot purchase, and remove the pain his physicians cannot cure. — Mortimer Collins
The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman. — Daniel D. Palmer
A modern hospital is like Grand Central Stationâ€”all noise and hubbub, and is filled with smoking physicians, nurses, orderlies, patients and visitors. Soft drinks are… — Herbert M. Shelton
One quarter of Medicare beneficiaries have five or more chronic conditions, sees an average of 13 physicians each year, and fills 50 prescriptions per year. — Clayton Christensen
Within every patient there resides a doctor, and we as physicians are at our best when we we put our patients in touch with the… — Albert Schweitzer
The most devastating indictment of the president's proposal is that it threatens to destroy virtually everything about American health care that's worth preserving. Under the… — William Kristol
Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes. — Sophocles
A careful physician . . . before he attempts to administer a remedy to his patient, must investigate not only the malady of the man… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Whilst my physicians by their love are grown Cosmographers, and I their map, who lie Flat on this bed. — John Donne
A physician who treated mental cases says that he based his diagnosis on the way his patients moved: "The body never lies" was his maxim. — Gerald Jonas
It takes approximately forty years for innovative thought to be incorporated into mainstream thought. I expect and hope that orthomolecular medicine, within the next five… — Abram Hoffer
Hope awakens courage. He who can implant courage in the human soul is the best physician. — Karl Ludwig von Knebel

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