Art Quote by Hippocrates

Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.

— Petrarch

“The art of medicine is long, Hippocrates tells us, "and life is short; opportunity fleeting; the experiment perilous; judgment flawed.”

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

Successful physicians have usually cultivated the eloquence necessary to talk their way into, or out of responsibility, as each patient's case demands.

— Boghos L Artinian MD

The ideal doctor is patient.

— Robert Haven Schauffler

The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two…

— Hippocrates

If a physician presumes to take into consideration in his work whether life has value or not, the consequences are boundless and the physician…

— Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland

When a doctor arrives to attend some patient of the working class, he ought not to feel his pulse the moment he enters, as…

— Bernardino Ramazzini

At the end of the day, that physician needs to be in the mix telling patients what their habits ought to be and whether…

— Miles D. White

A physician is an unfortunate gentleman who is every day required to perform a miracle; namely to reconcile health with intemperance.

— Voltaire

“Perhaps this is the solution to medicine’s midlife crisis, too: doctors focusing on their noble craft, their relationships with patients, the stuff over which…

— Sandeep Jauhar

“The core predicament of medicine - the thing that makes being a patient so wrenching, being a doctor so difficult, and being a part…

— Atul Gawande

Whenever a great physician treats diseases, he has to be mentally calm and his disposition firm. He should not give way to wishes and…

— Sun Simiao