A physician, after he had felt the pulse of Pausanias, and considered his constitution, saying, "He ails nothing," "It is because, sir," he replied, "I use none of your physic.
A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a 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.
The goal of scientific physicians in their own science. . . is to reduce the indeterminate. Statistics therefore apply only to cases in which the cause of the facts observed is still indeterminate.
You must be born for your physician, otherwise you are bound to perish because of your physician.
A man's bookseller should keep his confidence, like his physician. What can become of a world where every man knows what another man reads? Why, sir, books would become like quacks' potions, with every mountebank in the newspapers claiming one volume's superiority over another.
One quarter of Medicare beneficiaries have five or more chronic conditions, sees an average of 13 physicians each year, and fills 50 prescriptions per year.
Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
Nature can do more than physicians
Both children and adults like me who live with type 1 diabetes need to be mathematicians, physicians, personal trainers, and dietitians all rolled into one.
Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.
Lawyers and physicians are an ill provision for any country.
One of the first things which a physician says to his patient is, ~Let me see your tongue. ~ A spiritual advisor might often do the same.
Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
As the dominant social ethic changed from a religious to a secular one, the problem of heresy disappeared, and the problem of madness arose and became of great social significance. In the next chapter I shall examine the creation of social deviants, and shall show that as formerly priests had manufactured heretics, so physicians, as the new guardians of social conduct and morality, began to manufacture madmen.
The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.
There is a great difference between a good physician and a bad one; yet very little between a good one and none at all.
Physicians still retain something of their priestly origin; they would gladly do what they forbid.
I was told by a physician to avoid any line of work where people need to, um, depend on me for anything.
Feed by measure, and defy the physician.