Physicians Quotes
Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.
Ibn Firnas was a polymath: a physician, a rather bad poet, the first to make glass from stones (quartz), a student of music, and inventor of some sort of metronome.
If managing were simple, why do the majority of businesses fail? If physicians had the same success rate as executives, the medical schools would have been shuttered long ago.
Never must the physician say, the disease is incurable. By that admission he denies God, our Creator; he doubts Nature with her profuseness of hidden powers and mysteries.
The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
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?
The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole... For the part can never be well unless the whole is well.
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.
Every educated physician knows that most diseases are not appreciably helped by medicine.
No organization, whether it's police or physicians or whatever, wants to have its errors held up to the light of day, but it's wrong, as is coming out so well.
O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse.
My brother is the youngest member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. And I wouldn't let him cut my nails.
APOTHECARY, n. The physician's accomplice, undertaker's benefactor and grave worm's provider
BODY-SNATCHER, n. A robber of grave-worms. One who supplies the young physicians with that with which the old physicians have supplied the undertaker.
Conscientious and careful physicians allocate causes of disease to natural laws, while the ablest scientists go back to medicine for their first principles.
Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.
I was told by a physician to avoid any line of work where people need to, um, depend on me for anything.
God has administered to us of the present age, a bitter draught and a harsh physician, on account of our abounding infirmities.
The problem is that it takes physicians so long to accept a radical change. And the lag is unacceptable.
You must be born for your physician, otherwise you are bound to perish because of your physician.
Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrell to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.
Often the confidence of the patient in his physician does more for the cure of his disease than the physician with all his remedies. Reasserting the statement by Avicenna.
Physicians think they are doing something for you by labeling what you have as a disease
Christ is never fully valued, until sin is clearly seen. We must know the depth and malignity of our disease, in order to appreciate the great Physician.
On average, physicians interrupt patients within eighteen seconds of when they begin telling their story.
Silence is a trick when it imposes. Pedants and scholars, churchmen and physicians, abound in silent pride.
Man without religion is a diseased creature, who would persuade himself he is well and needs not a physician; but woman without religion is raging and monstrous.
We ought to observe that practice which is the hardest of all - especially for young physicians - we ought to throw in no medicine at all - to abstain - to observe a wise and masterly inactivity.
Hope awakens courage. He who can implant courage in the human soul is the best physician.
Who ever saw a doctor use the prescription of his colleague without cutting out or adding something?
The physician, to the extent he is a physician, considers only the good of the patient in what he prescribes, and his own not at all
Requiring military hospitals to perform elective abortions exposes the physicians, the nurses, the military personnel to move against their own personal convictions of life in many cases.
Physicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worse—without examining evidence which their “common sense” told them was impossible.
Many health care providers, particularly physicians in rural and urban areas, are leaving the Government programs because of inadequate reimbursement rates.
Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.
But what physician has not had patients who don't make any sense at all? To tell the truth, they're our stock-in-trade. We talk and write about the ones we can make sense of.
I might have made a tactical error not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that didn't pay off.
The examining physician often hesitates to make the necessary examination because it involves soiling the finger.
It is silliness to live when to live is torment, and then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician.
More than one skillful physician has said that if one asks the right questions, the patient will make the diagnosis for you in his or her own words.