It takes approximately forty years for innovative thought to be incorporated into mainstream thought. I expect and hope that orthomolecular medicine, within the next five to ten years, will cease to be a specialty in medicine and that all physicians will be using nurition as an essential tool in treating disease.
Aging nations have arteries clogged with obsolete laws, slowing blood flow and preventing oxygen from reaching all parts of the body politic. Physicians call this arteriosclerosis; historians see decline of empire.
Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
The physician must not only be the healer, but often the consoler.
Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.
Physicians mend or end us, Secundum artem; but although we sneer - In health - when ill we call them to attend us, Without the least propensity to jeer
Otis Brawley is one of America's truly outstanding physician scientists. In How We Do Harm, he challenges all of us-- physicians, patients, and communities-- to recommit ourselves to the pledge to 'do no harm. '
A half-educated physician is not valuable. He thinks he can cure everything.
Physicians attend to the business of physicians, and workmen handle the tools of workmen. [Lat. , Quod medicorum est Promittunt medici, tractant fabrilia fabri. ]
A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
The best physician is also a philosopher.
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.
Physicians still retain something of their priestly origin; they would gladly do what they forbid.
Nature itself is the best physician.
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.
Reasoning based on cost has been strenuously resisted; it violated the Hippocratic Oath, was associated with rationing, and derided as putting a price on life. . . Indeed, many physicians were willing to lie to get patients what they needed from insurance companies that were trying to hold down costs.
The physician who knows only medicine, knows not even medicine.
But what physician has not had patients who don't make any sense at all? To tell the truth, they're our stock-in-trade. We talk and write about the ones we can make sense of.
Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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.