Class Quote by Ramakrishna

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

— William Osler

The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

— William Osler

The physician, to the extent he is a physician, considers only the good of the patient in what he prescribes, and his own not…

— Plato

The common people say, that physicians are the class of people who kill other men in the most polite and courteous manner.

— John of Salisbury

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

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

— Voltaire

The ideal doctor is patient.

— Robert Haven Schauffler

“People tend to forget they are patients. Once they leave the doctor’s office or the hospital, they simply put it out of their minds.…

— Don DeLillo

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

People and organizations other than doctors increasingly are assuming power to decide which medications to prescribe or procedures to undertake. More and more, decisions…

— Bob Barr

Good physicians are rarely dispassionate. They agonize and self-doubt over patients.

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

More and more of us feel like emergency-room physicians, permanently on call, required to heal ourselves but unable to find the prescription for all…

— Pico Iyer