Heed Quote by Paracelsus

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

— Hippocrates

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

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

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

A careful physician . . . before he attempts to administer a remedy to his patient, must investigate not only the malady of the…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The ideal doctor is patient.

— Robert Haven Schauffler

Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey.

— Marcel Proust

“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

The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.

— Hippocrates

“Inasmuch as a great part of what doctors know is taught them by the sick, they are easily led to believe that this knowledge…

— Marcel Proust

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

Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.

— Hippocrates