Physician Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself.

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

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

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

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.

Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.

He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.

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.

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.

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.