Physicians Quotes

A patient had a 50-50 chance of benefiting from visiting a physician as of 1910. Medicine was more like voodoo than science until the 20th Century.

Physicians who care for adults generally don't think about vaccines as much as pediatricians do, and adults think of vaccines as a kid thing.

Physicians of the utmost fame, Were called at once; but when they came They answered, as they took their fees, 'There is no Cure for this Disease.'

If the patient has been to more than four physicians, nutrition is probably the medical answer.

There are 20,000 Muslim physicians in the United States, Americans putting their lives in the hands of Muslims every day.

Only the wounded physician heals.

Given one well-trained physician of the highest type and he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.

Physicians are the cobblers, rather the botchers, of men's bodies; as the one patches our tattered clothes, so the other solders our diseased flesh.

Within every patient there resides a doctor, and we as physicians are at our best when we we put our patients in touch with the doctor inside themselves.

Americans tend to endorse the use of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia when the question is abstract and hypothetical.

Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess

The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.

Physicians still retain something of their priestly origin; they would gladly do what they forbid.

We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.

It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients.

This is a sharp medicine, but it is a physician for all diseases and miseries.

No matter whether you are a physician, a teacher, or a clergyman, if you can give increase of life to others and make them sensible of that fact, they will be attracted to you, and you will get rich.

He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.

The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.

Taking a lady's hand gives her confidence in her physician.

But tell me, this physician of whom you were just speaking, is he a moneymaker, an earner of fees, or a healer of the sick?

You ought to choose both physician and friend, not the most agreeable, but the most useful.

Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.

Doctors frequently get it wrong. One out of five patients today is in the hospital because incorrect treatment by a physician put him or her there.

The noblest lord is ushered in By the practicing physician, And the humblest lout is ushered out By a certified mortician. And in between, they find their foyers Alive with summonses from lawyers.

You are also the physician who must watch over yourself. But in the course of every illness there are many days in which the physician can do nothing but wait.

Imprisoned quacks are always replaced by new ones.

But as sickness and diseases have created the necessity of medicines and physicians, so the disorders of our rational nature have introduced the necessity of education and tutors.

I affiliated with Physicians for Social Responsibility early on, and actually, their major thrust wasn't nearly as much around community health centers, although that was Jack Geiger's thing.

The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.

The physician heals, Nature makes well.

The best physician is he who can distinguish the possible from the impossible.

If a physician presumes to take into consideration in his work whether life has value or not, the consequences are boundless and the physician becomes the most dangerous man in the state.

A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.

Seventy per cent of all patients who come to physicians could cure themselves if they got rid of their fears and worries.

We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.

I'm one of the few candidates that actually goes out and talks in public, so I say a lot of things based on my experience, my judgment as an environmental health physician, so I say a lot of stuff.

Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome.

A physician who treated me as a nervous case for a while said in the end "No! It is not a matter of your nerves; it is I who am nervous".

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

I have the same opinion of dances that physicians have of mushrooms: the best of them are good for nothing.

Insurance companies, whether private or government owned, must be compelled to pay for health-promoting measures. In turn, this will encourage physicians to offer such treatments in earnest.

A man without persistence will never make a good shaman or a good physician.

A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.

Every Alchymist is a Physician or a Sope-boyler.

Adrian, the Emperor, exclaimed incessantly, when dying, "That the crowd of physicians had killed him."

My doctor is a family physician. He treats my family and I support his.

What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?

DIAGNOSIS, n. A physician's forecast of disease by the patient's pulse and purse.

Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful.