Physicians Quotes

The physician treats, but nature heals.

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

Herbs are the friend of the physician and the pride of cooks.

And what physicians say about disease is applicable here: that at the beginning a disease is easy to cure but difficult to diagnose; but as time passes, not having been recognized or treated at the outset, it becomes easy to diagnose but difficult to cure. The same thing occurs in affairs of state; for by recognizing from afar the diseases that are spreading in the state (which is a gift given only to the prudent ruler), they can be cured quickly; but when, not having been recognized, they are not recognized and are left to grow to the extent that everyone recognizes them, there is no longer any cure.

By examining the tongue of the patient, physicians find out the diseases of the body, and philosophers the diseases of the mind.

Every physician must be rich in knowledge, and not only of that which is written in books; his patients should be his book, they will never mislead him.

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!

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

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

Insulin is not a cure for diabetes; it is a treatment. It enables the diabetic to burn sufficient carbohydrates, so that proteins and fats may be added to the diet in sufficient quantities to provide energy for the economic burdens of life.

Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown.

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 physician is only nature's assistant.

Fasting is the greatest remedy-- the physician within.

The cure of many diseases remains unknown to the physicians of Hellos (Greece) because they do not study the whole person.

Fundamentalists who say they are not going to pay any attention to the charts are like a doctor who says he's not going to take a patient's temperature.

The most important thing to remember about food labels is that you should avoid foods that have labels.

A physician who fails to enter the body of a patient with the lamp of knowledge and understanding can never treat diseases. He should first study all the factors, including environment, which influence a patient's disease, and then prescribe treatment. It is more important to prevent the occurrence of disease than to seek a cure.

For we are not all equally afflicted with the same disease or all in need of the same severe cure. This is the reason why we see different persons disciplined with different crosses. The heavenly Physician takes care of the well-being of all his patients; he gives some a milder medicine and purifies others by more shocking treatments, but he omits no one; for the whole world, without exception, is ill (Deut 32:15).

The least questioned assumptions are often the most questionable.

The best physician is also a philosopher.

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

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

The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings

Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if he ignores these two great truths of population zoology: (1) no two individuals are alike, and (2) both environment and genetic endowment make a contribution to nearly every trait.

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

It is said to be the manner of hypochondriacs to change often their physician.

A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.

We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot. I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician. My intent wasn't to save the world as much as to heal myself. Few doctors will admit this, certainly not young ones, but subconsciously, in entering the profession, we must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.

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.

The cure of the part should not be attempted without treatment of the whole. No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul. Let no one persuade you to cure the head until he has first given you his soul to be cured, for this is the great error of our day, that physicians first separate the soul from the body.

Both children and adults like me who live with type 1 diabetes need to be mathematicians, physicians, personal trainers, and dietitians all rolled into one.

Although you feel tepid, approach with confidence, for the greater your infirmity the more you stand in need of a physician.

Good physicians are rarely dispassionate. They agonize and self-doubt over patients.

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

Nature itself is the best physician.

There is only one cardinal rule: One must always listen to the patient.

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

As with eggs, there is no such thing as a poor doctor, doctors are either good or bad.

One of the first things which a physician says to his patient is, ~Let me see your tongue.~ A spiritual advisor might often do the same.

The law discovers the disease, and the gospel the physician.

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

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.

There are other dimensions of biotechnology. If you think of biotechnology like the Internet, it's not a category - it's an infrastructure that can be deployed to sustain or disrupt. In health care, the most complex problems at the high end have to be dealt with in a problem-solving mode by the best, most experienced physicians you can find.

Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.

As a physician, I am embarrassed by my profession's lack of interest in healthier lifestyles. We need to change the way we approach chronic disease.

Physician, heal thyself.

Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.

Patients who are being kept alive by technology and want to end their lives already have a recognized constitutional right to stop any and all medical interventions, from respirators to antibiotics. They do not need physician-assisted suicide or euthanasia.

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.