Physicians Quotes

There is a great difference between a good physician and a bad one; yet very little between a good one and none at all.

At some time in the future scientists, physicians, mediums and healers will have to work together to perfect the science of the whole.

The consultant's first obligation is to the patient, not to his brother physician.

English physicians kill you, the French let you die.

My opinion is, that more harm than good is done by physicians; and I am convinced, that, had I left my patients to nature, instead of prescribing drugs, more would have been saved.

The goal of scientific physicians in their own science ... is to reduce the indeterminate. Statistics therefore apply only to cases in which the cause of the facts observed is still indeterminate.

Death a friend that alone can bring the peace his treasures cannot purchase, and remove the pain his physicians cannot cure.

The role of a clown and a physician are the same - it's to elevate the possible and to relieve suffering.

With the exception of lawyers, there is no profession which, considers itself above the law so widely as the medical profession.

The physician cannot prescribe by letter, he must feel the pulse.

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

We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.

Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.

The physician knows that his little black bag can carry him only so far and that the body's own healing system is the main resource.

The physician's ability to reassure the patient is a major factor in activating the body's own healing system.

A physician is nothing but a consoler of the mind.

The problem for a Paracelsian physician like me is that I see diseases as disguises in which people present me with their wretchedness.

My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.

Creative energy is the essence of all healing...We physicians do nothing, we only help and encourage the physician within.

Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.

When he can render no further aid, the physician alone can mourn as a man with his incurable patient. This is the physician's sad lot.

Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.

There's absolutely no reason at all that physicians, scientists, shouldn't be involved in things that affect all of us.

Nature performs the cure, the physician takes the fee.

If magistrates had true justice, and if physicians had the true art of healing, they would have no occasion for square caps; the majesty of these sciences would itself be venerable enough.

True men and women are all physicians to make us well.

Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.

How many physicians, scientists, teachers, pastors, missionaries, statesmen, musicians, businessmen, and notable contributors to society have been murdered in the womb?

Healing comes from the healed; not from the physician.

Art stands in opposition to all the bad things that happen in life, which is where physicians stand. That's what doctors do-affirm life. And that's what artists do.

They are the best physicians, who being great in learning most incline to the traditions of experience, or being distinguished in practice do not reflect the methods and generalities of art.

In my own experience as a physician, I have not seen a miraculous healing, and I don't expect to see one.

In the actual condition of medical science, the physician mostly plays the part of simple spectator of the sad episodes which his profession furnishes him.

There are more old drunkards than old physicians. [Fr., Il y a plus de vieux ivrongnes qu'il y a de vieux medecins.]

The most dangerous physicians are those born actors who imitate born physicians with a perfectly deceptive guile.

To go on vegetating in cowardly dependence on physicians and machinations, after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost, that ought to prompt a profound contempt in society.

The words ending in Ique do mocke the Physician (as Hectique, Paralitique, Apoplectique, Lethargique).

Misrepresented its own studies and the concerns of physicians suggesting the drug may increase the risk of heart problems.

Every physician almost hath his favourite disease.

After all we are merely the servants of the public, in spite of our M.D.'s and our hospital appointments.

Physicians attend to the business of physicians, and workmen handle the tools of workmen. [Lat., Quod medicorum est Promittunt medici, tractant fabrilia fabri.]

Quacks are a part of our culture, and we all fall prey to them. Who among us can say, for sure, that even our own personal physicians are honest and competent?

Jack Geiger, for example, was a leader of that movement. He was part of Physicians for Social Responsibility, which was kind of one of the ways that I worked my way into social activism in medicine.

In turn, more physicians, hospitals, and other health care providers are severely limiting their practices, moving to other states, or simply not providing care.

The purse of the patient often protracts his case.

Whilst my physicians by their love are grown Cosmographers, and I their map, who lie Flat on this bed.

There is no health; physicians say that we, at best, enjoy but neutrality.

From the physician and lawyer keep not the truth hidden.

Feed by measure, and defy the physician.

Preachers say, "Do as I say, not as I do." But if a physician had the same disease upon him that I have, and he should bid me do one thing and he do quite another, could I believe him?