The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
The examining physician often hesitates to make the necessary examination because it involves soiling the finger.
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?
Although physicians, as part of their training, are taught that the dosage of a drug that is prescribed for the patient must be very carefully determined and controlled, they seem to have difficulty in remembering that the same principle applies to the vitamins.
Ibn Firnas was a polymath: a physician, a rather bad poet, the first to make glass from stones (quartz), a student of music, and inventor of some sort of metronome.
The common people say, that physicians are the class of people who kill other men in the most polite and courteous manner.
Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
Taking a lady's hand gives her confidence in her physician.
Every physician almost hath his favourite disease.
I do like books on anatomy. I have to say I'm an amateur physician, I guess.
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 is no health; physicians say that we, at best, enjoy but neutrality.
Hope awakens courage. He who can implant courage in the human soul is the best physician.
A man without persistence will never make a good shaman or a good physician.
If you are a physician and someone comes to see you with an absolutely incapacitating headache or a swollen arm, you don't tell them, "Come back in 10 years when I've completed my study and I'll see what I can do for you. "
I feel like a physician, one who's done a scan of the patient's body and seen evidence of a potentially serious issue.
I was a bad practicing physician because I was never sure of the diagnosis or of the treatment.
Feed sparingly and defy the physician.
I used to wonder why people should be so fond of the company of their physician, till I recollected that he is the only person with whom one dares to talk continually of oneself, without interruption, contradiction or censure; I suppose that delightful immunity doubles their fees.
Nature can do more than physicians