Physicians Quotes - Page 21

• Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrell to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.

  George Herbert

  Grief, Lawyer, Pot

  George Herbert (1861). “The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir”, p.253

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• A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist; he is either, like the surgeon, a craftsman, or, like the physician and the psychologist, an artist. This means that in order to be a good doctor a man must also have a good character, that is to say, whatever weaknesses and foibles he may have, he must love his fellow human beings in the concrete and desire their good before his own.

  W. H. Auden

  Love, Character, Mean

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• This is a precious possession which we cannot afford to tarnish, but society always is attempting to make the physician into a killer to kill the defective child at birth, to leave the sleeping pills beside the bed of the cancer patient ... It is the duty of society to protect the physicians from such requests.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Cancer, Sleep

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• In a word, I consider hospitals only as the entrance to scientific medicine; they are the first field of observation which a physician enters; but the true sanctuary of medical science is a laboratory; only there can he seek explanations of life in the normal and pathological states by means of experimental analysis.

  Claude Bernard

  Life, Mean, Science

  Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.168, Courier Corporation

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• I think if a physician wrote on a death certificate that old age was the cause of death, he'd be thrown out of the union. There is always some final event, some failure of an organ, some last attack of pneumonia, that finishes off a life. No one dies of old age.

  George Wald

  Life, Science, Thinking

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• Idiots, the lame, the blind, the dumb, are men in whom the devils have established themselves: and all the physicians who heal these infirmities, as though they proceeded from natural causes, are ignorant blockheads.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Men, Dumb

  Martin Luther (1862). “The Life of Luther Written by Himself”, p.321

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• Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Mind, Weakness, Body

  Charles Caleb COLTON (1849). “L.P.”, p.221

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• The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.

  Hippocrates

  Sick, Healthy, Certain

  Hippocrates (1967). “Hippocrates”

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• My love is as a fever, longing still
  For that which longer nurseth the disease,
  Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill,
  Th' uncertain sickly appetite to please.
  My reason, the physician to my love,
  Angry that his prescriptions are not kept,
  Hath left me, and I desperate now approve
  Desire is death, which physic did except.

  William Shakespeare

  Famous Love, Love Is, Desire

  1609 Sonnets, sonnet 147.

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• Trials and tribulations offer us a chance to make reparation for our past faults and sins. On such occasions the Lord comes to us like a physician to heal the wounds left by our sins. Tribulation is the divine medicine.

  Saint Augustine

  Past, Medicine, Suffering

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• Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.

  Saint Augustine

  Punishment, Medicine, Suffering

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• Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Real, Men, Two

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1892). “Rousseau's Émile: Or, Treatise on Education”

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• ...as our friend Zach has often noted, in our days those who do the best for astronomy are not the salaried university professors, but so-called dillettanti, physicians, jurists, and so forth.Lamenting the fragmentary time left to a professor has remaining after fulfilling his teaching duties.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Education, Teaching, Science

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• Science even more than the Gospel teaches us humility. She cannot look down on anything, she does not know what superiority means, she despises nothing, never lies for the sake of a pose, and conceals nothing out of coquetry. She stops before the facts as an investigator, sometimes as a physician, never as an executioner, and still less with hostility and irony.

  Alexander Herzen

  Lying, Teaching, Mean

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• To mix science up with philosophy is only to produce a philosophy that has lost all its ideal value and a science that has lost all its practical value. It is for my private physician to tell me whether this or that food will kill me. It is for my private philosopher to tell me whether I ought to be killed.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Death, Philosophy, Science

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• We achieve active mastery over illness and death by delegating all responsibility for their management to physicians, and by exiling the sick and the dying to hospitals. But hospitals serve the convenience of staff not patients: we cannot be properly ill in a hospital, nor die in one decently; we can do so only among those who love and value us. The result is the institutionalized dehumanization of the ill, characteristic of our age.

  Thomas Szasz

  Love, Responsibility, Sick

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• The first question an Ayurvedic physician asks is not 'What disease does my patient have?' but 'Who is my patient?' By 'who,' the physician does not mean your name, but how you are constituted.

  Deepak Chopra

  Mean, Names, Medicine

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• 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.

  Claude Bernard

  Science, Goal, Statistics

  Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.161, Courier Corporation

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• Thus we work not in the light of public opinion but in the secrecy of the chamber; and perhaps the best of us are apt at times to forget the delicacies and sincerities which under these conditions are essential to harmony and honour.

  Clifford Allbutt

  Light, Essentials, Public Opinion

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• When he can render no further aid, the physician alone can mourn as a man with his incurable patient. This is the physician's sad lot.

  Aretaeus of Cappadocia

  Science, Men, Patient

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• Who ever saw a doctor use the prescription of his colleague without cutting out or adding something?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Cutting, Doctors, Use

  Michel de Montaigne (1979). “Essays”

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• I am a scientist and I am a physician. So I write papers.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Writing, Paper, Scientist

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• It is said to be the manner of hypochondriacs to change often their physician.

  William C. Bryant

  Medical, Said, Hypochondriac

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• 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.

  Lynn Townsend White, Jr.

  Glasses, Stones, Firsts

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• Patients who are being kept alive by technology and want to end their lives already have a recognized constitutional right to stop any and all medical interventions, from respirators to antibiotics. They do not need physician-assisted suicide or euthanasia.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Suicide, Technology, Needs

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