The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
It is said to be the manner of hypochondriacs to change often their physician.
The physician. . . is the flower (such as it is) of our civilization.
Physicians, of all men, are most happy; whatever good success soever they have, the world proclaimeth; and what faults they commit, the earth covereth.
How many physicians, scientists, teachers, pastors, missionaries, statesmen, musicians, businessmen, and notable contributors to society have been murdered in the womb?
Physicians still retain something of their priestly origin; they would gladly do what they forbid.
I realized in order to be involved in health policy, you really had to understand more than the individual patient that we as physicians, are taught to think about.
There is no health; physicians say that we, at best, enjoy but neutrality.
Doctors frequently get it wrong. One out of five patients today is in the hospital because incorrect treatment by a physician put him or her there.
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.
I feel like a physician, one who's done a scan of the patient's body and seen evidence of a potentially serious issue.
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.
Within every patient there resides a doctor, and we as physicians are at our best when we we put our patients in touch with the doctor inside themselves.
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?
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.
The most dangerous physicians are those born actors who imitate born physicians with a perfectly deceptive guile.
The physician must not only be the healer, but often the consoler.
A disorderly patient makes the physician cruel.
True men and women are all physicians to make us well.
The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.