Physician, heal thyself.
From the physician and lawyer keep not the truth hidden.
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?
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.
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.
Creative energy is the essence of all healing. . . We physicians do nothing, we only help and encourage the physician within.
The problem for a Paracelsian physician like me is that I see diseases as disguises in which people present me with their wretchedness.
A disorderly patient makes the physician cruel.
Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.
To a physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ.
I had rather follow you to your grave than see you owe your life to any but a regular-bred physician.
The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.
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.
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.
Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician.
The physician cannot prescribe by letter, he must feel the pulse.
Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be. I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around, but he carried it off so well.
The consultant's first obligation is to the patient, not to his brother physician.
The noblest lord is ushered in By the practicing physician, And the humblest lout is ushered out By a certified mortician. And in between, they find their foyers Alive with summonses from lawyers.
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.