Every educated physician knows that most diseases are not appreciably helped by medicine.
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.
Where once it was the physician who waged bellum contra morbum, the war against disease, now it's the whole society.
People don't turn away from an attorney sitting in a wheelchair. If the guy has got the reputation for being the best attorney around, that's who you go with. But in show business, for some reason they're still reluctant to say an attorney or a physician or an interior decorator can be in a chair, or on crutches, or blind or any of the other things.
It would be a mistake, though, to consider care by family doctors or midwives inferior to that offered by obstetricians simply on the grounds that obstetricians need not refer care to a family physician or midwife if no complications develop during a course of labor.
A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.
Within every patient there resides a doctor, and we as physicians are at our best when we we put our patients in touch with the doctor inside themselves.
The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital.
When he can render no further aid, the physician alone can mourn as a man with his incurable patient. This is the physician's sad lot.
Physician, heal thyself. Teacher, teach yourself.
The famous physician Dumoulin said when dying, 'I leave two great physicians behind me, simple food and pure water. '
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.
In turn, more physicians, hospitals, and other health care providers are severely limiting their practices, moving to other states, or simply not providing care.
English physicians kill you, the French let you die.
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.
Feed by measure, and defy the physician.
As far as physicians go, chance is more valuable than knowledge.
After all we are merely the servants of the public, in spite of our M. D. 's and our hospital appointments.
That which is used - develops. That which is not used wastes away.
Our role is to develop techniques that allow us to provide emergency life-saving procedures to injured patients in an extreme, remote environment without the presence of a physician.