68 Physician Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

Good Great Physician Patient Disease Who Treats

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

Knowledge Physician Astrology Call Himself Without Right

The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription. Norman Cousins

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

Suffering Physician Clown Possible Relieve Role Same Elevate

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine. William Osler

Physician First Medicine Take Masses Educate Duties

As any doctor can tell you, the most crucial step toward healing is having the right diagnosis. If the disease is precisely identified, a good resolution is far more likely. Conversely, a bad diagnosis usually means a bad outcome, no matter how skilled the physician. Andrew Weil

Good You Healing Doctor Matter Physician Tell Bad Outcome Having More Crucial Step Toward Most Likely Identified Diagnosis How Disease Precisely Any Far Skilled Means Right Resolution

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Angry Wise Man Wise Man Treat Physician Patient Sick Extravagant Mad Only Take He Look Does His Nor Fever Just Them Mankind Should Ill Medical

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

Life Old Physician Young Starts Disease Diseases Ends Each

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings. Frank Lloyd Wright

Home Plant Physician First Mistakes Build Possible Architect Only Advise Client Buildings Go His As Far As Bury Far Should Vines

Oh, come, Divine Physician, and bind up every broken bone. Come with Thy sacred nard which Thou hast compounded of Thine own heart's blood, and lay it home to the wounded conscience and let it feel its power. Oh! Give peace to those whose conscience is like the troubled sea which cannot rest. Charles Spurgeon

Home Broken Peace Heart Rest Physician Power Own Every Bone Those Thou Wounded Compounded Give Lay Troubled Sacred Divine Feel Thy Come Like Blood Up Oh Cannot Which Sea Bind Whose Conscience Thine

My dad was a physician. As a kid, I remember driving around with him on weekends so he could do his rounds at the hospital and talk to patients. We'd spend time in the car talking about what was going on with them, their stories. Pierre Omidyar

He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Hope Best Physician He Most Ingenious Who

I was born in a middle class Muslim family, in a small town called Myonenningh in a northern part of Bangladesh in 1962. My father is a qualified physician; my mother is a housewife. I have two elder brothers and one younger sister. All of them received a liberal education in schools and colleges. Taslima Nasrin

Education Family Class Mother Father Physician Sister Liberal Liberal Education Muslim Born Brothers Colleges Small Part Small Town Town Qualified Schools Housewife Bangladesh Northern Middle Middle Class Them Elder Younger Younger Sister Received Two

To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness. Thomas Traherne

Happiness Wisdom World Physician Important Think Imagination Way Madmen Oneself General Point Most Place Therefore Present Necessary

As a young physician in the mid-'80s, caring for people who had contracted H.I.V., I lost two of my patients to suicide at a time when the virus was doing very little harm to them. I have always thought of them as having been killed by a metaphor, by the burden of secrecy and shame associated with the disease. Abraham Verghese

Time People Burden Thought Physician Lost Young Suicide Secrecy Caring Virus Having Shame Had Always Metaphor Doing Been Contracted Very Disease Patients Little Them Who Two Associated Harm

This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experienced with the long, tormented agony and death of my mother might have influenced me in wanting to study medicine. It was not the case. Albert Claude

As a physician, I would never encroach upon the religious freedoms of my patients. Ami Bera

Physician Would Religious Never Freedoms Patients

I don't necessarily want my physician making all my decisions. Anne Wojcicki

Physician Making Want Decisions Necessarily

In 2009, UnitedHealth, a leading insurance company, paid $350 million to settle lawsuits brought by the American Medical Association and other physician groups for shortchanging consumers and physicians for medical services outside its preferred network. Bernie Sanders

President Trump has said he will not sign a bill which does not protect those with pre-existing conditions. I'm a physician who worked in a public hospital for 25 years caring for those with pre-existing conditions. Bill Cassidy

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