Physicians think they are doing something for you by labeling what you have as a disease
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.
Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.
How many physicians, scientists, teachers, pastors, missionaries, statesmen, musicians, businessmen, and notable contributors to society have been murdered in the womb?
Doctors frequently get it wrong. One out of five patients today is in the hospital because incorrect treatment by a physician put him or her there.
There are other dimensions of biotechnology. If you think of biotechnology like the Internet, it's not a category - it's an infrastructure that can be deployed to sustain or disrupt. In health care, the most complex problems at the high end have to be dealt with in a problem-solving mode by the best, most experienced physicians you can find.
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.
Our reliance on the physician is a kind of despair of ourselves.
Nature can do more than physicians
After all we are merely the servants of the public, in spite of our M. D. 's and our hospital appointments.
it must depend as much upon the patient's willingness to be cured, as upon the physician's skill in curing. There is neither force not magic in psychiatry.
Many older physicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worse---and without examining evidence which their “common sense” told them was impossible.
Americans tend to endorse the use of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia when the question is abstract and hypothetical.
The problem is that it takes physicians so long to accept a radical change. And the lag is unacceptable.
The role of a clown and a physician are the same - it's to elevate the possible and to relieve suffering.
Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.
Lawyers and physicians are an ill provision for any country.
If a physician presumes to take into consideration in his work whether life has value or not, the consequences are boundless and the physician becomes the most dangerous man in the state.
Physicians, of all men, are most happy; whatever good success soever they have, the world proclaimeth; and what faults they commit, the earth covereth.
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.