Every physician must be rich in knowledge, and not only of that which is written in books; his patients should be his book, they will never mislead him.
The purse of the patient often protracts his case.
Ibn Firnas was a polymath: a physician, a rather bad poet, the first to make glass from stones (quartz), a student of music, and inventor of some sort of metronome.
Our health care system is the finest in the world, but we still have too many uninsured Americans, too high prices for prescription drugs, and too many frivolous lawsuits driving our physicians out of state or out of business.
I had rather follow you to your grave than see you owe your life to any but a regular-bred physician.
Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
The role of a clown and a physician are the same - it's to elevate the possible and to relieve suffering.
Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
Thus we work not in the light of public opinion but in the secrecy of the chamber; and perhaps the best of us are apt at times to forget the delicacies and sincerities which under these conditions are essential to harmony and honour.
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
The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
I would like to promote the concept of a partnership of insurance companies, physicians and hospitals in deploying a basic framework for an electronic medical records system that is affordable.
The experienced physician, mechanic, or physiologist looking at a wound, an engine, a microscopic preparation, "sees" things the novice does not see. If both, experts and laymen, were asked to make exact copies of what they see, their drawings would be quite different.
Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
I do like books on anatomy. I have to say I'm an amateur physician, I guess.
Nature itself is the best physician.
He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
I decided I wanted to be a physician when I was seven years old.
The best physician is also a philosopher.
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.