Physicians Quotes - Page 7

No scientist, engineer, writer, psychologist, artist, or physician - and certainly no scholar, and therefore no serious university faculty member - pursues his or her vocation by getting right answers from a set of prescribed alternatives that trivialize complexity and ambiguity.

If one has a routine colonoscopy at the age of 50 and then colonoscopies thereafter as the physician recommends, you could largely prevent colon cancer, you could detect it in its very earliest stages and cure it.

Hope awakens courage. He who can implant courage in the human soul is the best physician.

Physician, heal thyself. Teacher, teach yourself.

Man without religion is a diseased creature, who would persuade himself he is well and needs not a physician; but woman without religion is raging and monstrous.

Silence is a trick when it imposes. Pedants and scholars, churchmen and physicians, abound in silent pride.

On average, physicians interrupt patients within eighteen seconds of when they begin telling their story.

Feed sparingly and defy the physician.

A person is not a democrat thanks to his ignorance of literature and the arts, nor an elitist because he or she has cultivated them. The possession of knowledge makes for unjust power over others only if used for that very purpose: a physician or lawyer or clergyman can exploit or humiliate others, or he can be a humanitarian and a benefactor. In any case, it is absurd to conjure up behind anybody who exploits his educated status the existence of an "elite" scheming to oppress the rest of us.

Physicians think they are doing something for you by labeling what you have as a disease

Often the confidence of the patient in his physician does more for the cure of his disease than the physician with all his remedies. Reasserting the statement by Avicenna.

Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrell to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.

The problem is that it takes physicians so long to accept a radical change. And the lag is unacceptable.

God has administered to us of the present age, a bitter draught and a harsh physician, on account of our abounding infirmities.

The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman.

I was told by a physician to avoid any line of work where people need to, um, depend on me for anything.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

BODY-SNATCHER, n. A robber of grave-worms. One who supplies the young physicians with that with which the old physicians have supplied the undertaker.

APOTHECARY, n. The physician's accomplice, undertaker's benefactor and grave worm's provider

O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse.

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

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

These hormones still belong to the physiologist and to the clinical investigator as much as, if not more than, to the practicing physician. But as Professor Starling said many years ago, 'The physiology of today is the medicine of tomorrow'.

The physicians belief in the treatment and the patients faith in the physician exert a mutually reinforcing effect; the result is a powerful remedy that is almost guaranteed to produce an improvement and sometimes a cure

A man's bookseller should keep his confidence, like his physician. What can become of a world where every man knows what another man reads? Why, sir, books would become like quacks' potions, with every mountebank in the newspapers claiming one volume's superiority over another.