Top 465 Physician Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on April 22, 2025.
I'm a physician. I've been blessed with ideas and resources to use technology to make the world a better place. That's what I would like to leave behind.
There is a clear matter that I am not a practicing physician. I have never been a practitioner; everybody has known for decades. I'm a developer of the technology.
But tell me, this physician of whom you were just speaking, is he a moneymaker, an earner of fees, or a healer of the sick?
Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.
The healthy know not of their health, but only the sick: this is the physician's aphorism, and applicable in a far wider sense than he gives it.
A lot of times you'll go into a doctor's office and want a kind, non-clinical approach from the physician. Doesn't usually happen.
As a physician, I am embarrassed by my profession's lack of interest in healthier lifestyles. We need to change the way we approach chronic disease.
The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
The end of satire is the amendment of vices by correction; and he who writes honestly is no more an enemy to the offender than the physician to the patient when he prescribes harsh remedies.
This is where the strength of the physician lies, be he a quack, a homeopath or an allopath. He supplies the perennial demand for comfort, the craving for sympathy that every human sufferer feels.
You must take a house beside the Physician. It will be a miracle if ye be the first sick that Christ hath put away uncured.
A physician is an unfortunate gentleman who is every day required to perform a miracle; namely to reconcile health with intemperance.
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.
From your confessor, lawyer and physician, hide not your case on no condition.
The doctor is effective only when he himself is affected. Only the wounded physician heals.
I chose a career in medicine because I wanted a tangible skill with which to serve people. And so my role as a physician is my attempt to do that.
Doctors frequently get it wrong. One out of five patients today is in the hospital because incorrect treatment by a physician put him or her there.
Such is the demographic paradox of a junior physician's relationship with his patients: I worry about how to extend their lives. This anxiety inevitably shortens my own.
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
Although you feel tepid, approach with confidence, for the greater your infirmity the more you stand in need of a physician.
No one ever said, 'Be a doctor.' But because so many members of my extended family - aunts, uncles - were doctors, there was this expectation that I'd probably be a physician.
The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician.
I feel like a physician, one who's done a scan of the patient's body and seen evidence of a potentially serious issue.
Preventive medicine isn't part of a physician's everyday routine, which is spent dispensing drugs and performing surgery.
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.
There is a clear matter that I am not a practicing physician; I have never been a practitioner; everybody has known for decades.
The famous physician Dumoulin said when dying, 'I leave two great physicians behind me, simple food and pure water.'
I studied at the Hebrew University Medical Faculty, graduated, and was an Israel Defense Forces' combat physician on a Navy ship.
Making personalized medicine a reality will require a strong partnership between 23andMe and the physician and medical communities.
Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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.
God has administered to us of the present age, a bitter draught and a harsh physician, on account of our abounding infirmities.
One of the first things which a physician
says to his patient is, ~Let me see your tongue.~ A spiritual advisor
might often do the same.
Employment, which Galen calls 'Nature's Physician,' is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery.
My father, who grew up picking olives on the Greek island of Lesbos, was a doctor. So my family expected me to become a physician.
A man without persistence will never make a good shaman or a good physician.
Beauty Is the fume-track of necessity. This thought Is therapeutic. If, after several Applications, you do not find Relief, consult your family physician.
As a physician concerned with the significant impact of obesity health, it is my mission to encourage children and adults to take control of their own lifestyle choices.
Hope awakens courage. He who can implant courage in the human soul is the best physician.
Most people are overconfident about their own abilities. That is probably a good thing. But we would be horrified if a physician's aide engaged in heart surgery.
The book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves.
It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; for all chastisement is a kind of medicine.
It is silliness to live when to live is torment, and then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician.
The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
As a physician for over 30 years, I am well aware of the dangers infectious diseases pose.
I was told by a physician to avoid any line of work where people need to, um, depend on me for anything.
Given one well-trained physician of the highest type and he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.
The study of nature with a view to works is engaged in by the mechanic, the mathematician, the physician, the alchemist, and the magician; but by all as things now are with slight endeavour and scanty success.
You ought to choose both physician and friend, not the most agreeable, but the most useful.
Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art.
PHYSICIAN, n. One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.
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.
Medicine is not merely a science but an art. The character of the physician may act more powerfully upon the patient than the drugs employed.
Given one well-trained physician of the highest type he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.
The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
The physician's ability to reassure the patient is a major factor in activating the body's own healing system.
Where once it was the physician who waged bellum contra morbum, the war against disease, now it's the whole society.
Taking a lady's hand gives her confidence in her physician.
Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.
