This we prescribe, though no physician; Deep malice makes too deep incision; Forget, forgive; conclude and be agreed; Our doctors say this is no month to bleed.
General practice is at least as difficult, if it is to be carried on well and successfully, as any special practice can be, and probably more so; for the G. P. has to live continually, as it were, with the results of his handiwork.
As lower-cost phones begin to penetrate, they'll become the educator and physician everywhere on the planet.
There is only one cardinal rule: One must always listen to the patient.
A suprising number of physicians manage to continue to care about persons even after the rigors of medical training.
A physician who treats himself has a fool for a patient.
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.
Imprisoned quacks are always replaced by new ones.
Good physicians are rarely dispassionate. They agonize and self-doubt over patients.
Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest, but that all seek the good of their patients? For we have agreed that a physician strictly so called, is a ruler of bodies, and not a maker of money, have we not?
Our reliance on the physician is a kind of despair of ourselves.
English physicians kill you, the French let you die.
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.
The most dangerous physicians are those born actors who imitate born physicians with a perfectly deceptive guile.
Physicians of the utmost fame, Were called at once; but when they came They answered, as they took their fees, 'There is no Cure for this Disease. '
Thus we work not in the light of public opinion but in the secrecy of the chamber; and perhaps the best of us are apt at times to forget the delicacies and sincerities which under these conditions are essential to harmony and honour.
The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole. . . For the part can never be well unless the whole is well.
Many health care providers, particularly physicians in rural and urban areas, are leaving the Government programs because of inadequate reimbursement rates.
It takes approximately forty years for innovative thought to be incorporated into mainstream thought. I expect and hope that orthomolecular medicine, within the next five to ten years, will cease to be a specialty in medicine and that all physicians will be using nurition as an essential tool in treating disease.