Physicians Quotes

The physician treats, but nature heals.

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.

Herbs are the friend of the physician and the pride of cooks.

And what physicians say about disease is applicable here: that at the beginning a disease is easy to cure but difficult to diagnose; but as time passes, not having been recognized or treated at the outset, it becomes easy to diagnose but difficult to cure. The same thing occurs in affairs of state; for by recognizing from afar the diseases that are spreading in the state (which is a gift given only to the prudent ruler), they can be cured quickly; but when, not having been recognized, they are not recognized and are left to grow to the extent that everyone recognizes them, there is no longer any cure.

By examining the tongue of the patient, physicians find out the diseases of the body, and philosophers the diseases of the mind.

Every physician must be rich in knowledge, and not only of that which is written in books; his patients should be his book, they will never mislead him.

The greatest mistake physicians make is that they attempt to cure the body without attempting to cure the mind, yet the mind and the body are one and should not be treated separately!

There are three classes of human beings: men, women and women physicians.

Employment is nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness.

Insulin is not a cure for diabetes; it is a treatment. It enables the diabetic to burn sufficient carbohydrates, so that proteins and fats may be added to the diet in sufficient quantities to provide energy for the economic burdens of life.

Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown.

The physician is only nature's assistant.

Rogue internet pharmacies continue to pose a serious threat to the health and safety of Americans. Simply put, a few unethical physicians and pharmacists have become drug suppliers to a nation.

Fasting is the greatest remedy-- the physician within.

The cure of many diseases remains unknown to the physicians of Hellos (Greece) because they do not study the whole person.

Fundamentalists who say they are not going to pay any attention to the charts are like a doctor who says he's not going to take a patient's temperature.

The most important thing to remember about food labels is that you should avoid foods that have labels.

A physician who fails to enter the body of a patient with the lamp of knowledge and understanding can never treat diseases. He should first study all the factors, including environment, which influence a patient's disease, and then prescribe treatment. It is more important to prevent the occurrence of disease than to seek a cure.

For we are not all equally afflicted with the same disease or all in need of the same severe cure. This is the reason why we see different persons disciplined with different crosses. The heavenly Physician takes care of the well-being of all his patients; he gives some a milder medicine and purifies others by more shocking treatments, but he omits no one; for the whole world, without exception, is ill (Deut 32:15).

The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings

The best physician is also a philosopher.

The least questioned assumptions are often the most questionable.

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and the social problems should largely be solved by them.

Sexuality is not a leisure or part-time activity. It is a way of being.