Consideration Quote by Thomas Sydenham

“Am I not as much a doctor as they? I too have my patients; in the first place, theirs, whom they call sick; and…

— Victor Hugo

“Doctors possessed true power. They could salvage the unsalvageable; they could extend life and raise the level of comfort for those in their final…

— Glen Krisch

“Like most doctors, the fanciest ones, he seemed offensively healthy, as if he kept the real secret of vitality to himself. He would live…

— Ben Marcus

“There is no physician like Him, none can save as He can; we love Him, and He loves us, and therefore we put ourselves…

— Charles Spurgeon

“However wretched I may feel, I want to prolong the agony as long as possible. All my patients are like that. And so are…

— Henrik Ibsen

“No one can relieve him of his suffering or suffer in his place. His unique opportunity lies in the way in which he bears…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“The doctor who treats himself has a fool for a patient.”

— Sir William Osler

“Even doctors — or perhaps especially doctors — need to be touched by something personally to understand the suffering of others. We’ve been taught…

— Jane Wilson-Howarth

“What had not changed, though, was the heroic spirit of responsibility amid blood and failure. This struck me as the true image of a…

— Paul Kalanithi

The truly patient man neither complains of his hard lot nor desires to be pitied by others. He speaks of his sufferings in a…

— Anonymous

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

— Marcel Proust

“When a doctor does go wrong, he is the first of criminals. He has the nerve and he has the knowledge.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle