Careful Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

A physician who fails to enter the body of a patient with the lamp of knowledge and understanding can never treat diseases. He should…

— Charaka

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

— Voltaire

The ideal doctor is patient.

— Robert Haven Schauffler

He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.

— Thomas Fuller

A physician who treats himself has a fool for a patient.

— William Osler

Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom…

— Voltaire

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

— Hippocrates

A physician is one who pours drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less.

— Voltaire

The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.

— Hippocrates

“Certainly the primary imperative of a physician is to be skilled in medical science, but if he or she does not probe a patient's…

— Jerome E. Groopman

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

What I think a doctor should do is prevent disease, by any means necessary.

— Jack Kevorkian