Physicians Quotes - Page 17

• Culture matters. Of course, if physicians are rewarded or penalized for their service and results, the culture will change. But the key values we doctors are being pressed to embrace are humility, teamwork, and discipline.

  Atul Gawande

  Teamwork, Humility, Keys

  "Ask the Author Live: Atul Gawande on Medical Costs". The New Yorker LIve Chat, www.newyorker.com. January 14, 2011.

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• FREEDLEY: Will I feel better after I take it? DR. FITCH (coldly): I, am a physician, Freedley, not an astrologer. If you want a horoscope, there's a gypsy tearoom over on Lexington Avenue.

  S. J. Perelman

  Funny, Humor, Feel Better

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• Our reliance on the physician is a kind of despair of ourselves.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Doctors, Despair, Kind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.469

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• Few diseases present greater difficulties in the way of diagnosis than malignant endocarditis, difficulties which in many cases are practi- cally insurmountable. It is no disparagement to the many skilled physicians who have put their cases upon record to say that, in fully one-half the diagnosis was made post mortem.

  William Osler

  Records, Half, Disease

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• We would love to see walking groups more widely recommended by physicians, health trainers and nurses.

  Sarah Hanson-Young

  Love, Health, Nurse

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• There was an opening in the ER program at King Drew, so I spent the next month there, fascinated with the range of pathology that I observed, the diversity of skill that the ER physicians had to acquire, the variety of cases, and the ability to interact closely with people.

  Samuel Wilson

  Kings, Skills, People

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• Unless physicians stand together to fight threats and injustices, our practices cannot remain viable in the future.

  Samuel Wilson

  Fighting, Practice, Together

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• The problem is that it takes physicians so long to accept a radical change. And the lag is unacceptable.

  Eric Topol

  Long, Lag, Radical Change

  "Is personalized medicine a myth?" by Amanda Enayati, www.cnn.com. July 26, 2012.

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• It is well known among physicians that the best of the nourishing foods is the one that the Moslem religion forbids, i.e., Wine. It contains much good and light nourishment. It is rapidly digested and helps to digest other foods.

  Maimonides

  Food, Wine, Light

  Moses Maimonides (2014). “The Preservation of Youth: Essays on Health”, p.12, Open Road Media

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• Most people assume that physician language is akin to technical, non-understandable jargon. It does not have to be that way. Doctors do not perform witchcraft. They simply interpret what they are told and what tests reveal. They diagnose and prescribe treatment. Our responsibility is to help doctors know what is going on in our bodies and to insist on clear, precise, understandable language in response.

  Ann Richards

  Responsibility, Doctors, People

  Source: bookpage.com

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• 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.

  Andrew Saul

  Doctors, Today, Patient

  Source: www.drpasswater.com

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• When the brain activity is kindled in the right spot, people hear voices. If a physician prescribes an anti-epileptic medication, the seizures go away and the voices disappear. Our reality depends on what our biology is up to.

  David Eagleman

  Reality, Voice, People

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• There is a great difference between a good physician and a bad one; yet very little between a good one and none at all.

  Arthur Young

  Medicine, Differences, Littles

  Arthur Young (1792). “Travels during the years 1787, 1788, and 1789: undertaken more particularly with a view of ascertaining the cultivation, wealth, resources, and national prosperity of the kingdom of France”, p.51

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• But tell me, this physician of whom you were just speaking, is he a moneymaker, an earner of fees, or a healer of the sick?

  Plato

  Plato, Sick, Fees

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• Many modern (so-called) Reformers are just as dangerous as the physician who makes a wrong diagnosis of a disease. They see the trouble from without and prescribe external remedies, while the cause of the trouble is within and needs internal treatment.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Needs, Disease, Diagnosis

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• If I had to choose between putting a saloon or a liberal church on a corner, I'd choose the saloon every time. People who drink up the pay check in the saloon are less likely to become Pharisees, thinking that they don't need the Great Physician, than those who weekly swill the soporific doctrine of man's goodness.

  Jay Adams

  Men, Thinking, People

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• Art stands in opposition to all the bad things that happen in life, which is where physicians stand. That's what doctors do-affirm life. And that's what artists do.

  Eric Avery

  Art, Doctors, Happens

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• No matter whether you are a physician, a teacher, or a clergyman, if you can give increase of life to others and make them sensible of that fact, they will be attracted to you, and you will get rich.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Teacher, Giving, Matter

  Wallace D. Wattles (2015). “The Science of Wallace D. Wattles: The Science of Being Well, The Science of Getting Rich & The Science of Being Great – Complete Trilogy: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of How to Promote Yourself, New Science of Living and Healing, Hellfire Harrison, A New Christ, How to Get What You Want and Jesus The Man and His Work”, p.65, e-artnow

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• The greatest mistake physicians make is that they attempt to cure the body without attempting to cure the mind, yet the mind and the body are one and should not be treated separately!

  Plato

  Mistake, Mind, Body

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• Making systems work is the great task of my generation of physicians and scientists. But I would go further and say that making systems work - whether in healthcare, education, climate change, making a pathway out of poverty - is the great task of our generation as a whole.

  Atul Gawande

  Motivation, Inspiration, Our Generation

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• The redefined physician is human, knows she's human, accepts it ... and she works in a culture of medicine that acknowledges that human beings run the system.

  Dr. Brian Goldman

  Running, Motivation, Inspiration

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• We're losing a ritual. We're losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.

  Abraham Verghese

  Motivation, Believe, Inspiration

  "A doctor's touch". TED Talks, www.ted.com. July 2011.

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• Irregular contact with doctors means many men fail to receive any preventive care for potentially life-threatening conditions. In addition, when men do seek care, embarrassment can often prevent them from openly discussing health concerns with their physicians.

  Michael Dean Crapo

  Mean, Men, Doctors

  "Out Of Touch:American Men And The Health Care System" by David Sandman, Elisabeth Simantov, and Christina An, March 2000.

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• Rogue internet pharmacies continue to pose a serious threat to the health and safety of Americans. Simply put, a few unethical physicians and pharmacists have become drug suppliers to a nation.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Safety, Drug, Rogues

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• Non-Christians seem to think that the Incarnation implies some particular merit or excellence in humanity. But of course it implies just the reverse: a particular demerit and depravity. No creature that deserved Redemption would need to be redeemed. They that are whole need not the physician. Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Men, Thinking

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “The World's Last Night: And Other Essays”, p.94, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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