Physicians Quotes - Page 3

The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.

The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital.

Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.

A physician who treats himself has a fool for a patient.

Just be wrong. Just stand there in your wrongness and be wrong, and get used to it.

We must be careful how we flatter fools too little, or wise men too much, for the flatterer must act the very reverse of the physician, and administer the strongest dose only to the weakest patient.

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.'

Gout, a physician's name for the rheumatism of a rich patient

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.

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

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.

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

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.

Let us show the world that a difference of opinion upon medical subjects is not incompatible with medical friendships; and in so doing, let us throw the whole odium of the hostility of physicians to each other upon their competition for business and money.

If migraine patients have a common and legitimate second complaint besides their migraines, it is that they have not been listened to by physicians. Looked at, investigated, drugged, charged, but not listened to.

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

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.

The sun - my almighty physician.

I would like to promote the concept of a partnership of insurance companies, physicians and hospitals in deploying a basic framework for an electronic medical records system that is affordable.

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

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.

I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself.

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