Doctor Quote by George Herbert

People pay the doctor for his trouble; for his kindness they still remain in his debt.

— Seneca the Younger

But tell me, this physician of whom you were just speaking, is he a moneymaker, an earner of fees, or a healer of the…

— Plato

The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.

— Thomas Fuller

The purse of the patient often protracts his case.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

When a doctor refuses money, even the most ethical ones, you usually start driving a good bargain with the undertaker.

— Sue Sanders

The need is to recognize that The patient is the healer, Not the doctor.

— Norman Cousins

To give money to a sufferer is only a come-off. It is only a postponement of the real payment, a bribe paid for silence,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“However, family and friends can be in a financial or emotional conflict of interest with the welfare of an incompetent patient.”

— Edmund D. Pellegrino

As economists have often pointed out, we pay doctors for quantity, not quality. As they point out less often, we also pay them as…

— Atul Gawande

Our doctor would never really operate unless it was necessary. He was just that way. If he didn't need the money, he wouldn't lay…

— Herb Shriner

The physician must not only be the healer, but often the consoler.

— Anonymous

A doctor who keeps a person from becoming ill deserves more merit than one who cures him.

— Vincent de Paul