Physicians Quotes - Page 2

• The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.

  Ramakrishna

  Class, Medicine, Going Away

  Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center

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• PHYSICIAN, n. One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Hope, Dog, Health

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.181, University of Georgia Press

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• A physician who treats himself has a fool for a patient.

  William Osler

  Fool, Patient, Treats

  Sir William Osler: Aphorisms Ch. 1 (William B. Bean)

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• Taking a lady's hand gives her confidence in her physician.

  William Osler

  Hands, Giving

  Sir William Osler, Mark E. Silverman, T. J. Murray, Charles S. Bryan, American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine (2003). “The Quotable Osler”, p.47, ACP Press

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• When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Knowledge, Doctors, Doe

  The Speckled Band

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• How people die remains in the memory of those who live on

  Cicely Saunders

  Life, Death, Memories

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• I am dying with the help of too many physicians.

  Alexander the Great

  Funny, Death, Health

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• Ye may have skill in the nature of things, yet nature can do more than all physicians put together; and God is far more above nature.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Nature, Environment, Can Do

  "Memoirs of the Protector, Oliver Cromwell, and of His Sons, Richard and Henry".

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• A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

  Samuel Butler

  Healing, Divinity, Medical

  Notebooks (1912) Ch. XIV

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• There are more old drunkards than old physicians.

  Francois Rabelais

  Humorous, Drinking, Wine

  Francois Rabelais (2014). “Gargantua and Pantagruel”, p.142, Lulu Press, Inc

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• As a physician, I know many doctors want to utilize new technology, but they find the cost prohibitive.

  Nathan Deal

  Technology, Doctors, Cost

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• The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.

  William E. Gladstone

  Country, Practice, Evil

  Speech, Plumstead, UK (1878)

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• Given one well-trained physician of the highest type and he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.

  William James Mayo

  Science, People, Type

  William James Mayo (1921). “In the time of Henry Jacob Bigelow”

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• 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.

  Chris Hadfield

  Technique, Roles, Saving

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• Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.

  Aeschylus

  Art, Crazy, Writing

  "Prometheus Bound". Play by Aeschylus,

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• Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession, as well as outside my profession in my intercourse with men, if it be what should not be published abroad, I will never divulge, holding such things to be holy secrets.

  Hippocrates

  Men, Sick, House

  The Physician's Oath (translation by W. H. S. Jones)

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• One way to measure a particular doctor's openness and attitude toward women in general is simply to ask about the doctor's opinion of midwifery.

  Marsden Wagner

  Attitude, Women, Doctors

  Marsden Wagner (2008). “Born in the USA: How a Broken Maternity System Must be Fixed to Put Women and Children First”, p.103, Univ of California Press

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• I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it is medically conservative to cut people open and put them on cholesterol lowering drugs for the rest of their lives.

  Dean Ornish

  Food, Health, Cutting

  "Hearts and Minds" by Roberto Suro, New York Times Magazine, December 29, 1991.

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• Sexuality is not a leisure or part-time activity. It is a way of being.

  Alexander Lowen

  Sex, Way, Leisure

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• An osteopath is only a human engineer, who should understand all the laws governing his engine and thereby master disease.

  Andrew Taylor Still

  Healing, Engineering, Law

  Andrew Taylor Still, George Van O'Linda Webster (1935). “Sage Sayings of Still: Selected from the Writings of Dr. A.T. Still; with a Historical Sketch of Osteopathy and an Appreciation of Dr. Still”

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• Basketball really had its origin in Indiana, which remains the center of the sport.

  James Naismith

  Funny, Basketball, Sports

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• Whenever you fall, pick something up.

  Oswald Avery

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• When there are kids involved, there's no such thing as divorce.

  Carl Whitaker

  Family, Marriage, Children

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• I believe that fortitude is key. More than anything, be consistent. Go at it. Go at it. Go at it. When you succeed, don’t forget the responsibility of making somebody else succeed with you.

  Antonia Novello

  Success, Perseverance, Believe

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• I have argued for years that we do not have a health care system in America. We have a disease-management system - one that depends on ruinously expensive drugs and surgeries that treat health conditions after they manifest rather than giving our citizens simple diet, lifestyle and therapeutic tools to keep them healthy.

  Andrew Weil

  Health, Simple, Years

  "U.S. manages disease, not health" by Andrew Weil, www.cnn.com. March 10, 2013.

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