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?
Never must the physician say, the disease is incurable. By that admission he denies God, our Creator; he doubts Nature with her profuseness of hidden powers and mysteries.
Every physician must be rich in knowledge, and not only of that which is written in books; his patients should be his book, they will never mislead him.
I was a bad practicing physician because I was never sure of the diagnosis or of the treatment.
By examining the tongue of the patient, physicians find out the diseases of the body, and philosophers the diseases of the mind.
The orthodox school has witnessed for centuries that nature itself has never once cured any existing disease with another dissimilar one, however intense. What must we think of this school, which nevertheless has continued to treat chronic diseases allopathically, with medicines and formulas that can only cause a disease condition -God knows which -dissimilar to the one being treated? Even if these physicians have not hitherto observed nature attentively enough, the miserable results of their treatment should have taught them that they were on the wrong road.
Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.
The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings
The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
I had rather follow you to your grave than see you owe your life to any but a regular-bred physician.
Let us show the world that a difference of opinion upon medical subjects is not incompatible with medical friendships; and in so doing, let us throw the whole odium of the hostility of physicians to each other upon their competition for business and money.
Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.
Keep away from physicians. It is all probing and guessing and pretending with them. They leave it to Nature to cure in her own time, but they take the credit. As well as very fat fees.
With the exception of lawyers, there is no profession which, considers itself above the law so widely as the medical profession.
My doctor is a family physician. He treats my family and I support his.
Physicians are the cobblers, rather the botchers, of men's bodies; as the one patches our tattered clothes, so the other solders our diseased flesh.
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?
A physician who treats himself has a fool for a patient.
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.
The common people say, that physicians are the class of people who kill other men in the most polite and courteous manner.