Top 277 Physicians Quotes & Sayings

True men and women are all physicians to make us well.

I am dying with the help of too many physicians.

I don't understand, given the constraints physicians have in doing their job and the paperwork demanded of them, why people want to be physicians. I think we've made it very, very difficult for them to perform their job. I think that's a shame.

Nature, time and patience are three great physicians.

Physicians are like kings- They brook no contradiction.

The most dangerous physicians are those born actors who imitate born physicians with a perfectly deceptive guile.

Ah, what a grudge I owe physicians! what mummery is their art!

As I came through medical school, it was very exciting because physicians were reaching out to each other, between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, and sort of helping to build bridges among, you know, people, people who were not allowing our government to pit us against each other and to actually take us to the brink of nuclear war. And Physicians for Social Responsibility wound up getting a Peace Prize, a Nobel Peace Prize, which they shared with International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War.

My brother is the youngest member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. And I wouldn't let him cut my nails.

Whilst my physicians by their love are grown Cosmographers, and I their map, who lie Flat on this bed.

There's absolutely no reason at all that physicians, scientists, shouldn't be involved in things that affect all of us.

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

As far as physicians go, chance is more valuable than knowledge.

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

At the end of the day, concussions are best dealt with between the drivers and their personal physicians.

Nature can do more than physicians.

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

Good physicians are rarely dispassionate. They agonize and self-doubt over patients.

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

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.

Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.

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

anything being perceived as being superior takes the noun. And everything that isn't, that's judged to be inferior, requires an adjective. So there are black novelists and novelists. There are women physicians and physicians. Male nurses and nurses.

When I was in the Mississippi Legislature, we worked to establish the Mississippi Rural Physicians Scholarship Program to help address the shortage of physicians in the rural areas of the state.

My parents both are physicians, and my grandfathers were both physicians.

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.

Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.

Physicians should be genotyped.

Far too many doctors-many of them excellent physicians-commit suicide each year; one recent study concluded that, until quite recently, the United States lost annually the equivalent of a medium-sized medical school class from suicide alone. Most physician suicides are due to depression or manic-depressive illness, both of which are eminently treatable. Physicians, unfortunately, not only suffer from a higher rate of mood disorders than the general population, they also have a greater access to very effective means of suicide.

Creative energy is the essence of all healing...We physicians do nothing, we only help and encourage the physician within.

Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.

We midwives and physicians have a lot to teach each other.

If the patient has been to more than four physicians, nutrition is probably the medical answer.

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

Lawyers and physicians are an ill provision for any country.

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

The words of Christ are of more worth than the opinions of all the physicians in the universe.

The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.

I have the same opinion of dances that physicians have of mushrooms: the best of them are good for nothing.

Physicians think they do a lot for a patient when they give his disease a name.

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

The cure of many diseases remains unknown to the physicians of Hellos (Greece) because they do not study the whole person.

Only those who regard healing as the ultimate goal of their efforts can, therefore, be designated as physicians.

Physicians attend to the business of physicians, and workmen handle the tools of workmen. [Lat., Quod medicorum est Promittunt medici, tractant fabrilia fabri.]

...Only physicians are likely to be regarded as competent to judge the qualifications of potential physicians, so licensing boards in the various states...are typically composed..of physicians,...members of the AMA. The boards, or the state legislatures...give the AMA the power to influence the number of persons admitted to practice (by) lengthy training,...(and) the list of 'approved' schools and hospitals (which) is generally identical with the list issued by the Council on Medical Education and Hospitals of the AMA.

The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.

Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.

Physicians still retain something of their priestly origin; they would gladly do what they forbid.

Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome.

When a physician is called to a patient, he should decide on the diagnosis, then the prognosis, and then the treatment. ... Physicians must know the evolution of the disease, its duration and gravity in order to predict its course and outcome. Here statistics intervene to guide physicians, by teaching them the proportion of mortal cases, and if observation has also shown that the successful and unsuccessful cases can be recognized by certain signs, then the prognosis is more certain.

The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and the social problems should largely be solved by them.

America is facing a looming shortage of doctors, nurses, and physicians' assistants.

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

There is no health; physicians say that we, at best, enjoy but neutrality.

Adrian, the Emperor, exclaimed incessantly, when dying, "That the crowd of physicians had killed him."

The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated.

WVSOM graduates more physicians annually than both West Virginia University and Marshall University and more than half of the primary care physicians practicing in West Virginia are graduates of the Osteopathic School.

A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.

English physicians kill you, the French let you die.

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