Clinicians Quote by Michael E. DeBakey

For me, the essence of a medicine man's life is to be humble, to have great patience, to be close to the Earth, to…

— Archie Fire Lame Deer

“The patient accretion of knowledge, the focusing of all one's energies on some problem in history or science, the dogged pursuit of excellence of…

— Michael Dirda

“He said that knowledge was of little use without wisdom, and that there was no wisdom without spirituality, and that true spirituality always included…

— Isabel Allende

“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

Doctors should recognise the importance of the five human values; Truth, righteousness, Peace, Love and Non-violence. Love is the basis for all the other…

— Sathya Sai Baba

“Our job (as practitioners) is to settle under our own individual ego self needs and to allow ourselves to be guided by a mysterious…

— Cherionna Menzam-Sills

“This is the one chance to learn about other things than medicine. Medicine is the art of observation and interpretation, which are skills that…

— David B. Agus

The glory of medicine is that it is constantly moving forward, that there is always more to learn. The ills of today do not…

— William James Mayo

Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do…

— Hippocrates

Many doctors are drawn to this profession (psychology) because they have an innate deficiency of insight into the motives, feelings and thoughts of others,…

— William S. Burroughs

Medicine may be defined as the art or the science of keeping a patient quiet with frivolous reasons for his illness and amusing him…

— Gilles Menage

“The goal of medicine is peculiarly, the goal of making itself unneccessary: of influencing life so that what is medicine today becomes mere commonsense…

— Adolf Meyer