Physician Quotes

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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, 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.

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

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.

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

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