Physicians Quotes - Page 2

Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if he ignores these two great truths of population zoology: (1) no two individuals are alike, and (2) both environment and genetic endowment make a contribution to nearly every trait.

It is said to be the manner of hypochondriacs to change often their physician.

A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.

The cure of the part should not be attempted without treatment of the whole. No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul. Let no one persuade you to cure the head until he has first given you his soul to be cured, for this is the great error of our day, that physicians first separate the soul from the body.

We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot. I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician. My intent wasn't to save the world as much as to heal myself. Few doctors will admit this, certainly not young ones, but subconsciously, in entering the profession, we must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.

Our role is to develop techniques that allow us to provide emergency life-saving procedures to injured patients in an extreme, remote environment without the presence of a physician.

Both children and adults like me who live with type 1 diabetes need to be mathematicians, physicians, personal trainers, and dietitians all rolled into one.

Although you feel tepid, approach with confidence, for the greater your infirmity the more you stand in need of a physician.

The woman who needs to be liberated most is the woman in every man, and the man who needs to be liberated most is the man in every woman

Good physicians are rarely dispassionate. They agonize and self-doubt over patients.

There is only one cardinal rule: One must always listen to the patient.

Nature itself is the best physician.

To become comfortable with uncertainty is one of the primary goals in the training of a physician.

One of the first things which a physician says to his patient is, ~Let me see your tongue.~ A spiritual advisor might often do the same.

As with eggs, there is no such thing as a poor doctor, doctors are either good or bad.

The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.

The law discovers the disease, and the gospel the physician.

Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.

Patients who are being kept alive by technology and want to end their lives already have a recognized constitutional right to stop any and all medical interventions, from respirators to antibiotics. They do not need physician-assisted suicide or euthanasia.

Ye may have skill in the nature of things, yet nature can do more than all physicians put together; and God is far more above nature.

Physician, heal thyself.

There are other dimensions of biotechnology. If you think of biotechnology like the Internet, it's not a category - it's an infrastructure that can be deployed to sustain or disrupt. In health care, the most complex problems at the high end have to be dealt with in a problem-solving mode by the best, most experienced physicians you can find.

Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.

As a physician, I am embarrassed by my profession's lack of interest in healthier lifestyles. We need to change the way we approach chronic disease.

The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.