It is silliness to live when to live is torment, and then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician.
The consultant's first obligation is to the patient, not to his brother physician.
For the spear was a desert physician, That cured not a few of ambition, And drave not a few to perdition, With medicine bitter and strong.
Friendship hath the skill and observation of the best physician, the diligence and vigilance of the best nurse, and the tenderness and patience of the best mother.
The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it
You are also the physician who must watch over yourself. But in the course of every illness there are many days in which the physician can do nothing but wait.
The physician must not only be the healer, but often the consoler.
I do not think that a Physician should be admitted into the College till he could bring proofs of his having cured, in his own person, at least four incurable distempers.
I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician. I think it's very upfront. I am a doctor. I have long experience with heart disease.
No matter whether you are a physician, a teacher, or a clergyman, if you can give increase of life to others and make them sensible of that fact, they will be attracted to you, and you will get rich.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore, trust the physician and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility.
Fasting is the greatest remedy-- the physician within.
If I were a physician, and if I were allowed to prescribe just one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence. For even if the Word of God were proclaimed in the modern world, how could one hear it with so much noise? Therefore, create silence.
And it has been sarcastically said, that there is a wide difference between a good physician and a bad one, but a small difference between a good physician and no physician at all; by which it is meant to insinuate, that the mischievous officiousness of art does commonly more than counterbalance any benefit derivable from it.
I was told by a physician to avoid any line of work where people need to, um, depend on me for anything.
Preachers say, "Do as I say, not as I do. " But if a physician had the same disease upon him that I have, and he should bid me do one thing and he do quite another, could I believe him?
It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; for all chastisement is a kind of medicine.
Only the wounded physician heals.
The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
I quite like the transitions of being an actor, because you get to explore these little pockets of life. So if you're playing a builder you get to know about building, if you're playing a scientist or a physician or something you get to know about physics. And similarly with this world I like exploring their culture, that very sort of upper middle class, addictive. . . that's part of the reason I love it.