Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia have been profound ethical issues confronting doctors since the birth of Western medicine, more than 2,000 years ago.
Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
My mother, a teacher, encouraged me to use my creativity as an actual way to make a living, and my father, a Mississippi physician, did two things. First, he taught me that all human beings should be treated equally because no one is better than anyone else, and he never pressured me to become a doctor.
As lower-cost phones begin to penetrate, they'll become the educator and physician everywhere on the planet.
By examining the tongue of the patient, physicians find out the diseases of the body, and philosophers the diseases of the mind.
Only those who regard healing as the ultimate goal of their efforts can, therefore, be designated as physicians.
As with eggs, there is no such thing as a poor doctor, doctors are either good or bad.
DIAGNOSIS, n. A physician's forecast of disease by the patient's pulse and purse.
Doctors can do almost anything nowadays, can't they, unless they kill you while they're trying to cure you.
After all we are merely the servants of the public, in spite of our M.D.'s and our hospital appointments.
General practice is at least as difficult, if it is to be carried on well and successfully, as any special practice can be, and probably more so; for the G.P. has to live continually, as it were, with the results of his handiwork.
Imprisoned quacks are always replaced by new ones.
For many doctors the achievement of a published article is a tedious duty to be surmounted as a necessary hurdle in a medical career.
Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered.
Laplace considers astronomy a science of observation, because we can only observe the movements of the planets; we cannot reach them, indeed, to alter their course and to experiment with them. "On earth," said Laplace, "we make phenomena vary by experiments; in the sky, we carefully define all the phenomena presented to us by celestial motion." Certain physicians call medicine a science of observations, because they wrongly think that experimentation is inapplicable to it.
Only the doctor and the judge have the right to inflict the death penalty without receiving the same.
The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
What does the poor man do at the rich man's door, the sick man in the presence of his physician, the thirsty man at a limpid stream? What they do, I do before the Eucharistic God. I pray. I adore. I love.
The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole... For the part can never be well unless the whole is well.
Every physician almost hath his favourite disease.
I have heard that Tiberius used to say that that man was ridiculous, who after sixth years, appealed to a physician.
The end of satire is the amendment of vices by correction; and he who writes honestly is no more an enemy to the offender than the physician to the patient when he prescribes harsh remedies.
Modern society includes three types of men who can never think very highly of the world--the priest, the physician, and the attorney-at-law. They all wear black, too, for are they not in mourning for every virtue and every illusion?
No scientist, engineer, writer, psychologist, artist, or physician - and certainly no scholar, and therefore no serious university faculty member - pursues his or her vocation by getting right answers from a set of prescribed alternatives that trivialize complexity and ambiguity.
I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician. I think it's very upfront. I am a doctor. I have long experience with heart disease.
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