Physician Quotes - page 2

To take Macaulay out of literature and society and put him in the House of Commons, is like taking the chief physician out of London during a pestilence. (Sydney Smith)
From your confessor, lawyer and physician, Hide not your case on no condition. View quote
John Harington (inventor)
It is silliness to live when to live is torment, and then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician. View quote
William Shakespeare
The best physician is also a philosopher. View quote
Galen
He that practiceth showing mercy to him that needeth, will soon cease from covetousness, he who continues in giving to the poor, will soon cease from anger, and will never even be high-minded. For as the physician continually tending wounded persons is easily sobered, beholding human nature in the calamities of others; so we, if we enter upon the work of aiding the poor, shall easily become truly wise, and shall not admire riches, nor deem present things any great matter, but despise them all, and soaring aloft to heaven, shall easily obtain the eternal blessings, through the grace and lovingkindness of our Lord Jesus Christ; to whom, with the Father and the Holy Ghost, be glory for ever and ever. Amen. View quote
John Chrysostom
We do not accost a physician as we do any mere nobody; nor a magistrate as we do a private individual. We try to get some advantage from the skill of the one and the position of the other. Walk in the sun, and your shadow will follow you, whether you will or not. View quote
Basil of Caesarea
As any doctor can tell you, the most crucial step toward healing is having the right diagnosis. If the disease is precisely identified, a good resolution is far more likely. Conversely, a bad diagnosis usually means a bad outcome, no matter how skilled the physician. View quote
Andrew Weil
I think the way we think about cancer, the way we treat cancer, has dramatically changed in the last century. There is an enormous amount of options that a physician can provide today, right down from curing patients, treating patients or providing patients with psychic solace or pain relief. View quote
Siddhartha Mukherjee
A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness, leaving her without support, respect or professional counsel. View quote
Elizabeth Blackwell
Given one well-trained physician of the highest type he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists. View quote
William J. Mayo
The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician. (William J. Mayo)
A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he must view the man in his world. View quote
Harvey Cushing
As a physician, I know many doctors want to utilize new technology, but they find the cost prohibitive. View quote
Nathan Deal
Our role is to develop techniques that allow us to provide emergency life-saving procedures to injured patients in an extreme, remote environment without the presence of a physician. View quote
Chris Hadfield
As a physician and as a pilot, I think it lets me be a pretty good translator having one foot in the medical world and one foot in the flying world. Sometimes when the medical guys come in and speak medical stuff to the pilots, the pilots really don't know what they're saying. View quote
David M. Brown
The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still. View quote
Daniel Nathans
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. View quote
Laurel Clark
As a physician, I understand how important it is to collect data on people so we can understand what's happening with them. I will be in the position to help enable that knowledge. View quote
Laurel Clark
I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician. I think it's very upfront. I am a doctor. I have long experience with heart disease. View quote
Robert Jarvik
To become comfortable with uncertainty is one of the primary goals in the training of a physician. View quote
Sherwin B. Nuland
If you expect a physician to help you, you must lay bare your wound. (Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius)
I am lonely without measure; that is to say, I am alone with my doubles, phantasms in whom I realize specific dreams, ideas, inclinations, and so on. I rip three other people out of my inner life, give them names, and believe in them myself. Gradually three clearly defined types have emerged: *1: Grosz. *2: Count Ehrenfried, the nonchalant aristocrat with the well-manicured fingernails, concerned only with cultivating himself; in a word, the detached, aristocratic individualist. *3: The physician. Dr. William King Thomas, the more American, practical counterweight to Grosz the mother figure. View quote
George Grosz
He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician. View quote
Thomas Fuller
The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it. View quote
Maimonides
I must have told my story ill if to every physician who hears me its illustrations have not the invigorating force of moral tonics. View quote
Silas Weir Mitchell