Physicians Quotes

• The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.

  Paracelsus

  Art, Healing, Mind

  Seven Defenses Ch. 4

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• The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.

  William Osler

  Practice Of Medicine, Disease, Medical

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• The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated.

  Plato

  Mistake, Health, Two

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• One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

  William Osler

  Education, Healing, Health

  In Aphorisms from his Bedside Teachings (1961) p. 105

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• A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he must view the man in his world.

  Harvey Cushing

  Men, Ayurveda, Views

  Man Adapting Ch. 12 (René J. Dubois)

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• Physicians still retain something of their priestly origin; they would gladly do what they forbid.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Stills

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• People tend to think of breakthroughs in medicine as a new drug, a laser, or a high-tech surgical procedure. They often have a hard time believing that the simple choices that we make in our lifestyle. What we eat, how we respond to stress, whether or not we smoke cigarettes, how much exercise we get, and the quality of our relationships and support can be as powerful as drugs and surgery. And they often are.

  Dean Ornish

  Powerful, Stress, Believe

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• Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.

  Hans Selye

  Inspirational, Stress, Anxiety

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• The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician.

  William James Mayo

  Life, Science, Ideas

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• 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.

  Paracelsus

  Book, Patient, Rich

  Paracelsus, Jolande Jacobi (1951). “Selected Writings”, p.50, Princeton University Press

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• A physician is an unfortunate gentleman who is every day required to perform a miracle; namely to reconcile health with intemperance.

  Voltaire

  Health, Miracle, Gentleman

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• That which is used - develops. That which is not used wastes away.

  Hippocrates

  Life, Use It Or Lose It, Waste

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• Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Doctors, Medicine, Mixing

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• Nature abhors a vacuum.

  Francois Rabelais

  Nature, Hate, Science

  "Gargantua", Chapter V, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 544-48, 1922.

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• Let the surgeon take care to regulate the whole regimen of the patient's life for joy and happiness by promising that he will soon be well, by allowing his relatives and special friends to cheer him and by having someone tell him jokes, and let him be solaced also by music on the viol or psaltery. The surgeon must forbid anger, hatred, and sadness in the patient, and remind him that the body grows fat from joy and thin from sadness.

  Henri de Mondeville

  Cheer, Sadness, Science

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• As a physician, I understand how important it is to collect data on people so we can understand what's happening with them. I will be in the position to help enable that knowledge.

  Laurel Clark

  Data, People, Important

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• Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art.

  Ovid

  Art, Sick, Stronger

  Pontic Epistles I.III.17

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• Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

  Khalil Gibran

  Pain, Self, Sick

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.84, Lulu.com

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• As an atheist evolving to agnosticism, and seeking answers to whether or not belief in God is potentially rational, my life was turned upside down 35 years ago by reading C. S. Lewis's Mere Christianity.

  Francis Collins

  Life, God, Atheist

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• Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.

  Hippocrates

  Life, Art, Science

  Moses Maimonides, Hippocrates (1987). “Maimonides' commentary on the aphorisms of Hippocrates”

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• The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed.

  Samuel Hahnemann

  Sick, People, Healthy

  Samuel Hahnemann (1982). “Organon of medicine”, J P Tarcher

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• Strive to preserve your health; and in this you will better succeed in proportion as you keep clear of the physicians, for their drugs are a kind of alchemy concerning which there are no fewer books than there are medicines.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Book, Medicine, Drug

  Leonardo Da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”

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• The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.

  William Osler

  Practice Of Medicine, Drug, Disease

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• All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

  Havelock Ellis

  Life, Moving On, Letting Go

  Havelock Ellis (1973). “Affirmations”, Milford House Publishing Company

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• The ideal doctor would be a man endowed with profound knowledge of life and of the soul, intuitively divining any suffering or disorder of whatever kind, and restoring peace by his mere presence.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Health, Men, Medical Knowledge

  Journal Intime 22 August (1873)

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