Diligence Quote by John Donne

I feel like a physician, one who's done a scan of the patient's body and seen evidence of a potentially serious issue.

— Katharine Hayhoe

The patient is the one with the disease

— Samuel Shem

There is a clear matter that I am not a practicing physician; I have never been a practitioner; everybody has known for decades.

— Robert Jarvik

Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease?

— C. S. Lewis

“Typical of the medical profession,’ said Larry bitterly. ‘They can’t even spot a disease until the patient is twice life size.”

— Gerald Durrell

The problem for a Paracelsian physician like me is that I see diseases as disguises in which people present me with their wretchedness.

— Robertson Davies

Physicians think they are doing something for you by labeling what you have as a disease

— Immanuel Kant

The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it

— Anonymous

The physician himself, if sick, actually calls in another physician, knowing that he cannot reason correctly if required to judge his own condition while…

— Aristotle

Physicians think they do a lot for a patient when they give his disease a name.

— Immanuel Kant

The physician, to the extent he is a physician, considers only the good of the patient in what he prescribes, and his own not…

— Plato

It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.

— Hippocrates