Ends Quote by Lord Byron

We have medicalized a lot of things that I think are not really medical conditions.

— Darold Treffert

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

— C. S. Lewis

They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

— Jesus

“...younger patients, known as 'Acutes' because the doctors figure them still sick enough to be fixed...”

— Ken Kesey

Physicians are the cobblers, rather the botchers, of men's bodies; as the one patches our tattered clothes, so the other solders our diseased flesh.

— John Ford

We achieve active mastery over illness and death by delegating all responsibility for their management to physicians, and by exiling the sick and the…

— Thomas Szasz

“A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more than even the whole man—he must view the man in his world.”

— Harvey Cushing

It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

— Jesus Christ

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

— Voltaire

“Am I not as much a doctor as they? I too have my patients; in the first place, theirs, whom they call sick; and…

— Victor Hugo

“As the Readers’s Digest once said: ‘Many persons call a doctor when all they want is an audience.”

— Dale Carnegie

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

— Vincent de Paul