Convince Quote by Peter Medawar

The advanced members of the medical profession know that the health of society is not to be obtained or maintained by medicines; - that…

— Robert Owen

Patients who trust their doctors and have a psychological expectation of getting better could trigger a reaction in their body.

— Irving Kirsch

It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.

— Norman Cousins

“Because doctors can’t name the illness, everyone—the patient's family, friends, health insurance, and in many cases the patient—comes to think of the patient as…

— Joseph Dumit

When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.

— Pierre Corneille

“A good doctor, and in a special sense the psychologist, makes it quite deliberately, slightly harder for the patient to recover too easily. You…

— Lawrence Durrell

The illness of a doctor is always worse than the illnesses of his patients.The patients only feel, but the doctor, as well as feeling,…

— Maxim Gorky

A lot of medical problems are solved if doctors are nice to patients. If you can make them think positive, you may not need…

— Rajkumar Hirani

An educated patient is empowered; thus, more likely to become healthy.

— Dean Ornish

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

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

My opinion is, that more harm than good is done by physicians; and I am convinced, that, had I left my patients to nature,…

— Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland