Physicians Quotes - Page 8

Death a friend that alone can bring the peace his treasures cannot purchase, and remove the pain his physicians cannot cure.

Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures.

It's such a long mission and we get to spend so much time in space... we're doing such exciting research. And I don't want to overemphasize the life science research, but as a physician the life science research that we're doing is extremely exciting.

Our health care system is the finest in the world, but we still have too many uninsured Americans, too high prices for prescription drugs, and too many frivolous lawsuits driving our physicians out of state or out of business.

Men are men before they are lawyers, or physicians, or merchants, or manufacturers; and if you make them capable and sensible men, they will make themselves capable and sensible lawyers or physicians.

If you are a physician and someone comes to see you with an absolutely incapacitating headache or a swollen arm, you don't tell them, "Come back in 10 years when I've completed my study and I'll see what I can do for you."

The goal of scientific physicians in their own science ... is to reduce the indeterminate. Statistics therefore apply only to cases in which the cause of the facts observed is still indeterminate.

The daily clinical experience of thousands of massage therapists, physical therapists, and physicians strongly indicates that most of our common aches and pains - and many other puzzling physical complaints - are actually caused by trigger points, or small contraction knots, in the muscles of the body.

As a physician who knows the importance of body image to our overall health, I wanted to have a way to inspire women to love their bodies no matter what size or shape they are. This is possible!!! And I know EXACTLY how to do this because I've done it myself and I've helped thousands of others to do the same thing. It's women's health at its most fundamental level!

English physicians kill you, the French let you die.

The consultant's first obligation is to the patient, not to his brother physician.

There is a great difference between a good physician and a bad one; yet very little between a good one and none at all.

More than one skillful physician has said that if one asks the right questions, the patient will make the diagnosis for you in his or her own words.

The problem for a Paracelsian physician like me is that I see diseases as disguises in which people present me with their wretchedness.

A physician is nothing but a consoler of the mind.

Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.

The physician's ability to reassure the patient is a major factor in activating the body's own healing system.

The physician knows that his little black bag can carry him only so far and that the body's own healing system is the main resource.

There are some chagrins of the heart which a friend ought to try to console without betraying a knowledge of their existence, as there are physical maladies which a physician ought to seek to heal without letting the sufferer know that he has discovered their extent.

Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.

We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.

Some persons will tell you, with an air of the miraculous, that they recovered although they were given over; whereas they might with more reason have said, they recovered because they were given over.

Nature performs the cure, the physician takes the fee.

Ask me no reason why I love you; for though Love use Reason for his physician, he admits him not for his counsellor.

This we prescribe, though no physician; Deep malice makes too deep incision; Forget, forgive; conclude and be agreed; Our doctors say this is no month to bleed.