Physicians Quotes - Page 9

Many modern (so-called) Reformers are just as dangerous as the physician who makes a wrong diagnosis of a disease. They see the trouble from without and prescribe external remedies, while the cause of the trouble is within and needs internal treatment.

Most physicians regard abortion as a stigmatized operation done by people who are otherwise incompetent and can't do anything else.

I do like books on anatomy. I have to say I'm an amateur physician, I guess.

Where once it was the physician who waged bellum contra morbum, the war against disease, now it's the whole society.

I am a scientist and I am a physician. So I write papers.

It might be that women who have beennurses should not marry physicians. They have too much respect for physicians, are taughtto have too much respect

I decided I wanted to be a physician when I was seven years old.

I would say to young physicians that the more you intentionally improve the lives of the people in the community you serve the better your life will be and the greater your value will be to the community.

It is incident to physicians, I am afraid, beyond all other men, to mistake subsequence for consequence.

There was a time when I believed in the persuadability of man, and had the mania of man-mending. Experience has taught me better. The ablest physician can do little in the great lazar-house of society. He acts the wisest part who retires from the contagion.

The physician...is the flower (such as it is) of our civilization.

There is a clear matter that I am not a practicing physician; I have never been a practitioner; everybody has known for decades.

I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician.

If anyone doubts the influence of drug company ads on patients and physicians - consider all those wasted billions of dollars for a pill that sells for more than six times as much as another drug that does the same thing, made by the same company.

Well, I would never do a study because I'm a practicing physician. I mean, all I do is treat people.

I realized in order to be involved in health policy, you really had to understand more than the individual patient that we as physicians, are taught to think about.

I had an interest in health policy and a realization that, as an academic physician, one of the things you're always looking to do is to have your clinical interests and your scholarly interests overlap and reinforce one another.

I had rather follow you to your grave than see you owe your life to any but a regular-bred physician.

Our reliance on the physician is a kind of despair of ourselves.

Little does the sick man consult his own interests, who makes his physician his heir.

A physician, after he had felt the pulse of Pausanias, and considered his constitution, saying, "He ails nothing," "It is because, sir," he replied, "I use none of your physic."

Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest, but that all seek the good of their patients? For we have agreed that a physician strictly so called, is a ruler of bodies, and not a maker of money, have we not?

it must depend as much upon the patient's willingness to be cured, as upon the physician's skill in curing. There is neither force not magic in psychiatry.

A doctor is nothing more than consolation for the spirit.

As lower-cost phones begin to penetrate, they'll become the educator and physician everywhere on the planet.