Physicians Quotes - Page 8

• To become comfortable with uncertainty is one of the primary goals in the training of a physician.

  Sherwin B. Nuland

  Goal, Training, Primaries

  Sherwin B. Nuland (2008). “The Uncertain Art: Thoughts on a Life in Medicine”, p.13, Random House

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• If anyone doubts the influence of drug company ads on patients and physicians - consider all those wasted billions of dollars for a pill that sells for more than six times as much as another drug that does the same thing, made by the same company.

  Robert Bazell

  Drug, Doubt, Pills

  "The costly side effects of Nexium's ad blitz". www.nbcnews.com. August 14, 2007.

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• Not one amongst the doctors, as you'll see
  For his own friends desires to prescribe.

  Philemon

  Doctors, Medicine, Desire

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• The two fulcra of medicine are reason and observation. Observation is the clue to guide the physician in his thinking.

  Giorgio Baglivi

  Science, Thinking, Two

  Introduction to De Praxi Medica

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• We ought to observe that practice which is the hardest of all - especially for young physicians - we ought to throw in no medicine at all - to abstain - to observe a wise and masterly inactivity.

  John Randolph of Roanoke

  Wise, Science, Practice

  Register of Debates in Congress, vol. 4, col. 1170, January 25, 1828.

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• Environmental degradation is an iatrogenic disease induced by economic physicians who treat the basic malady of unlimited wants by prescribing unlimited growth.... Yet one certainly does not cure a treatment-induced disease by increasing the treatment dosage.

  Herman E. Daly

  Growth, Environmental, Doe

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• Employment is nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness.

  Galen

  Health, Essentials, Employment

  "Day's Collacon: an Encyclopaedia of Prose Quotations". Book by Edward Parsons Day, p. 223, 1884.

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• Physicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worse—without examining evidence which their “common sense” told them was impossible.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Liars, Common Sense, Gone

  "Stranger in a Strange Land".

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• All knowledge attains its ethical value and its human significance only by the human sense with which it is employed. Only a good man can be a great physician.

  Hermann Nothnagel

  Knowledge, Science, Men

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• From the physician, as emphatically the student of Nature, is expected not only an inquiry into cause, but an investigation of the whole empire of Nature and a determination of the applicability of every species of knowledge to the improvement of his art.

  John Gorrie

  Art, Determination, Knowledge

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• If popular medicine gave the people wisdom as well as knowledge, it would be the best protection for scientific and well-trained physicians.

  Rudolf Virchow

  Wisdom, Knowledge, Science

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• It is not too farfetched that soon it will be possible for a physician to send the electrocardiogram and the heart sound via communication satellite to a distant heart specialist for diagnosis and consultation.

  Hubertus Strughold

  Communication, Heart, Medicine

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• The Medicine Man occupied the honored role of priest and physician to his tribe. They understood that healing was done by the intercession of celestial spirits. Music was used as the bridge between these planes. Thus we see why music was religious in nature, and music was looked upon as a sacred art.

  Corinne Heline

  Religious, Art, Inspiration

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• If the patient has been to more than four physicians, nutrition is probably the medical answer.

  Abram Hoffer

  Healing, Answers, Four

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• Your accumulated offences do not surpass the multitude of God's mercies: your wounds do not surpass the great Physician's skill.

  Cyril of Jerusalem

  God, Christian, Religious

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• The famous Greek physician Hippocrates administered musical treatments to his patients in 400 B.C. Although this type of treatment did not originate with him, it found in him an exponent of the highest order. With the increasing materialism of Western civilization, the major tenants of ancient musical therapy have been either forgotten or discarded.

  Corinne Heline

  Inspiration, Order, Civilization

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• This is a sharp medicine, but it is a physician for all diseases and miseries.

  Walter Raleigh

  Death, Medicine, Disease

  Sir Walter Raleigh (2015). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Raleigh (Illustrated)”, p.206, Delphi Classics

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• Let me tell you how at one time the famous mathematician Euclid became a physician. It was during a vacation, which I spent in Prague as I most always did, when I was attacked by an illness never before experienced, which manifested itself in chilliness and painful weariness of the whole body. In order to ease my condition I took up Euclid's Elements and read for the first time his doctrine of ratio, which I found treated there in a manner entirely new to me. The ingenuity displayed in Euclid's presentation filled me with such vivid pleasure, that forthwith I felt as well as ever.

  Bernard Bolzano

  Pain, Recovery, Science

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• By Mamun's time medical schools were extremely active in Baghdad. The first free public hospital was opened in Baghdad during the Caliphate of Haroon-ar-Rashid. As the system developed, physicians and surgeons were appointed who gave lectures to medical students and issued diplomas to those who were considered qualified to practice. The first hospital in Egypt was opened in 872 AD and thereafter public hospitals sprang up all over the empire from Spain and the Maghrib to Persia.

  John Bagot Glubb

  Islamic, School, Egypt

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• As a physician and as a pilot, I think it lets me be a pretty good translator having one foot in the medical world and one foot in the flying world. Sometimes when the medical guys come in and speak medical stuff to the pilots, the pilots really don't know what they're saying.

  David M. Brown

  Thinking, Feet, Guy

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• Bunbury? Oh, he was quite exploded. Exploded! Was he the victim of a revolutionary outrage? I was not aware that Mr. Bunbury was interested in social legislation. If so, he is well punished for his morbidity. My dear Aunt Augusta, I mean he was found out! The doctors found out that Bunbury could not , that is what I mean—so Bunbury died. He seems to have had great confidence in the opinion of his physicians.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mean, Aunt, Doctors

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• A man without persistence will never make a good shaman or a good physician.

  Confucius

  Persistence, Men

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• Healing comes from the healed; not from the physician.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Healing, Healed

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 1, 2, 3, and 4: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn”, p.1644, Delacorte Press

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• He saw merchants trading, princes hunting, mourners wailing for their dead, whores offering themselves, physicians trying to help the sick, priests determining the most suitable day for seeding, lovers loving, mothers nursing their children—and all of this was not worthy of one look from his eye, it all lied, it all stank, it all stank of lies, it all pretended to be meaningful and joyful and beautiful, and it all was just concealed putrefaction. The world tasted bitter. Life was torture

  Hermann Hesse

  Beautiful, Meaningful, Mother

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• It has oft been said that physicians make the worst patients, but it is the opinion of This Author that any man makes a terrible patient. One might say it takes patience to be a patient, and heaven knows, the males of our species lack an abundance of patience.

  Julia Quinn

  Men, Heaven, Males

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