Physician Quotes

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.

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.

The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants.

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

Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician.

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.

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.

The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.

In addition the bill would expand an existing law "conscience clause" that protects physician training programs that refuse to provide training for abortion procedures.

Well, first of all, let me say that I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that really didn't pay off.

The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.

The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed.

Given one well-trained physician of the highest type he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.

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.

Preventive medicine isn't part of a physician's everyday routine, which is spent dispensing drugs and performing surgery.

As a physician, I know many doctors want to utilize new technology, but they find the cost prohibitive.

The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician.

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself. He heals himself, by his own power, exactly as he walks by means of his own power, or eats, or thinks, breathes or sleeps.

The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.

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.

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

The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital.

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.

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.

The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still.

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.