Physicians Quotes - Page 6

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.

The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The physician must not only be the healer, but often the consoler.

Wisdom is not mathematical, nor astronomical, nor zoological; when it talks too much of any one thing it ceases to be itself. There are wise physicists, but wisdom is not physical; there are wise physicians, but wisdom is not medical.

Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.

The estimated total number of iatrogenic deaths-that is, deaths induced inadvertently by a physician or surgeon or by medical treatment or diagnostic procedures in the US annually is 783,936.......while 553,251 died of cancer.

Reasoning based on cost has been strenuously resisted; it violated the Hippocratic Oath, was associated with rationing, and derided as putting a price on life... Indeed, many physicians were willing to lie to get patients what they needed from insurance companies that were trying to hold down costs.

There are some modern practitioners, who declaim against medical theory in general, not considering that to think is to theorize; and that no one can direct a method of cure to a person labouring under disease, without thinking, that is, without theorizing; and happy therefore is the patient, whose physician possesses the best theory.

Keep away from physicians. It is all probing and guessing and pretending with them. They leave it to Nature to cure in her own time, but they take the credit. As well as very fat fees.

DIAGNOSIS, n. A physician's forecast of disease by the patient's pulse and purse.

It is silliness to live when to live is torment, and then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician.

The examining physician often hesitates to make the necessary examination because it involves soiling the finger.

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.

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.

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

Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.

There are dull and bright, sacred and profane, coarse and fine egotists. It is a disease that, like influenza, falls on all constitutions. In the distemper known to physicians as chorea, the patient sometimes turns round, and continues to spin slowly in one spot. Is egotism a metaphysical varioloid of this malady?

To a physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ.

A disorderly patient makes the physician cruel.

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

Who ever saw a doctor use the prescription of his colleague without cutting out or adding something?