Physician Quotes

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine. (William Osler)
Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease, like caries and many other ailments, is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrell to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot. View quote
George Herbert
Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer. View quote
George Herbert
Every physician almost hath his favorite disease. View quote
Henry Fielding
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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. View quote
Georg Groddeck
Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician. View quote
Matthew Prior
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. View quote
Warren Zevon
Employment is Nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness. View quote
Galen
The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital. (Mark Hyman, M.D.)
I am not impressed with what people own. But I'm impressed with what they achieve. I'm proud to be a physician. Always strive to be the best in your field.... Don't chase money. If you are the best in your field, money will find you. View quote
Thomas J. Stanley
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. View quote
Seneca
In those days you didn't have to deal with the black market. You could go to your physician and just say, 'Listen, I want to gain some weight, and I want to take something.' Then the physician would say, 'Do it six weeks before competition, then it will be safe.' And that's what you would do. The dosage that was taken then versus taken now is not even 10 percent. It's probably 5 percent. View quote
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Physician of the Iron Age, Goethe has done his pilgrimage. He took the suffering human race, He read each wound, each weakness clear - And struck his finger on the place, And said - Thou ailest here, and here. View quote
Matthew Arnold
While there are cases where even the law recognizes an abortion as justifiable if recommended by a physician, I assert that the hundreds of thousands of abortions performed in America each year are a disgrace to civilization. View quote
Margaret Sanger
In my own experience as a physician, I have not seen a miraculous healing, and I don't expect to see one. View quote
Francis Collins
The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease. View quote
William Osler
A physician who treats himself has a fool for a patient. View quote
William Osler
For we are not all equally afflicted with the same disease or all in need of the same severe cure. This is the reason why we see different persons disciplined with different crosses. The heavenly Physician takes care of the well-being of all his patients; he gives some a milder medicine and purifies others by more shocking treatments, but he omits no one; for the whole world, without exception, is ill. View quote
John Calvin
A physician, after he had felt the pulse of Pausanias, and considered his constitution, saying, "He ails nothing," "It is because, sir," he replied, "I use none of your physic." (Plutarch)
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind; therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
The problem for a Paracelsian physician like me is that I see diseases as disguises in which people present me with their wretchedness. View quote
Robertson Davies
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. View quote
Frank Lloyd Wright
To take Macaulay out of literature and society and put him in the House of Commons, is like taking the chief physician out of London during a pestilence. View quote
Sydney Smith