Best 132 quotes in «physicians quotes» category

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

One quarter of Medicare beneficiaries have five or more chronic conditions, sees an average of 13 physicians each year, and fills 50 prescriptions per year.

O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse.

On average, physicians interrupt patients within eighteen seconds of when they begin telling their story.

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.

Our health care system is the finest in the world, but we still have too many uninsured Americans, too high prices for prescription drugs, and too many frivolous lawsuits driving our physicians out of state or out of business.

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.

Only those who regard healing as the ultimate goal of their efforts can, therefore, be designated as physicians.

Physician, help yourself: thus help your patient too. Let this be his best help: that he may behold with his eyes the man who heals himself.

Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.

Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.

Physicians attend to the business of physicians, and workmen handle the tools of workmen. [Lat., Quod medicorum est Promittunt medici, tractant fabrilia fabri.]

Postpartum depression is very, very common but a lot of people just don't recognize that they have it. A lot of physicians also don't ask (patients) about it, so it's a problem from both sides.

Police ought to protect communities as well as individuals.... Just as physicians now recognize the importance of fostering health rather than simply treating illness, so the police - and the rest of us - ought to recognize the importance of maintaining, intact, communities without broken windows.

Prevention of disease must become the goal of every physician.

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

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.

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.

Silence is a trick when it imposes. Pedants and scholars, churchmen and physicians, abound in silent pride.

The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.

Strive to preserve your health; and in this you will better succeed in proportion as you keep clear of the physicians, for their drugs are a kind of alchemy concerning which there are no fewer books than there are medicines.

The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.

The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.

The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants.

The freedom of patient speech is necessary if the doctor is to get clues about the medical enigma before him. If the patient is inhibited, or cut off prematurely, or constrained into one path of discussion, then the doctor may not be told something vital. Observers have noted that, on average, physicians interrupt patients within eighteen seconds of when they begin telling their story.

The goal of scientific physicians in their own science ... is to reduce the indeterminate. Statistics therefore apply only to cases in which the cause of the facts observed is still indeterminate.

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.

The physician knows that his little black bag can carry him only so far and that the body's own healing system is the main resource.

The physician treats, but nature heals.

The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.

The physicians belief in the treatment and the patients faith in the physician exert a mutually reinforcing effect; the result is a powerful remedy that is almost guaranteed to produce an improvement and sometimes a cure

The healthy know not of their health, but only the sick: this is the physician's aphorism, and applicable in a far wider sense than he gives it.

The physician cannot prescribe by letter, he must feel the pulse.

The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and the social problems should largely be solved by them.

There's absolutely no reason at all that physicians, scientists, shouldn't be involved in things that affect all of us.

There are three classes of human beings: men, women and women physicians.

The purse of the patient often protracts his case.

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

The sun - my almighty physician.

The role of a clown and a physician are the same - it's to elevate the possible and to relieve suffering.

These hormones still belong to the physiologist and to the clinical investigator as much as, if not more than, to the practicing physician. But as Professor Starling said many years ago, 'The physiology of today is the medicine of tomorrow'.

The surgery of the ancient Indian physicians was bold and skilful. A special branch of surgery was dedicated to rhinoplasty or operations for improving deformed ears, noses and forming new ones, which European surgeons have now borrowed.

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

The woman who needs to be liberated most is the woman in every man, and the man who needs to be liberated most is the man in every woman

Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.

Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art.

The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.

Who ever saw a doctor use the prescription of his colleague without cutting out or adding something?

To go on vegetating in cowardly dependence on physicians and machinations, after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost, that ought to prompt a profound contempt in society.

True men and women are all physicians to make us well.