Physicians Quotes - Page 23

• There is a clear matter that I am not a practicing physician; I have never been a practitioner; everybody has known for decades.

  Robert Jarvik

  Matter, Clear, Decades

  "Jarvik Responds to Lipitor Ad Controversy" by Ryan Owens, Joel Parks, Steve Petyeraki, Maeyen Ibanga, abcnews.go.com. January 16, 2008.

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• From the physician and lawyer keep not the truth hidden.

  John Florio

  Truth, Lawyer

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• British physician, West African Countries and Peoples Man's place is higher than the sky. Respect for man is the underlying spirit of civilization.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Country, Men, Sky

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• Prayer works in the mind as a healing force. It calms the patient, enlightens the physician, guides the surgeon, and it often victoriously applies the power of the spirit when all seems lost. It proves, over and over again, the truth of Tennyson's words: "More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of." Prayer puts us on God's side. It aligns us with life's higher purposes, aims, and ideals. Prayer is dedicating our thought, feeling and action to the expression of goodness. It is to become like a window through which the light of God shines.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Dream, Prayer, Healing

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• I hear from patients who say their doctor said, 'If you want to take Vitamin C, go ahead and do it. It won't harm you, and it may do you some good.' More and more physicians are getting convinced about the value of large doses of Vitamin C.

  Linus Pauling

  Doctors, Vitamins, May

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• Medicine really matured me as a person because, as a physician, you're obviously dealing with life and death issues, issues much more serious than what we're talking about in entertainment. You can't get more serious than life and death. And if you can handle that, you can handle anything.

  Ken Jeong

  Issues, Talking, Medicine

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• My father, who grew up picking olives on the Greek island of Lesbos, was a doctor. So my family expected me to become a physician.

  Peter Diamandis

  Father, Islands, Doctors

  "X Prize Founder Peter Diamandis Has His Eyes on the Future". Interview with Ted Greenwald, www.wired.com. June 22, 2012.

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• Americans tend to endorse the use of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia when the question is abstract and hypothetical.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Suicide, Use, Euthanasia

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• 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.

  Anthony Burgess

  Doctors, Credit, Guessing

  Nothing Like the Sun (1964)

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• Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.

  Jonathan Swift

  Life And Death, Giving, Judgment

  Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting

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• So long as men and women are free, no one is safe. People will be in danger because others can't operate vehicles responsibly or shoot straight. Because physicians are sometimes incompetent and lawyers dishonest. But most of all they will be in danger from ideas. It is the price we willingly pay to be free. Nor would we have it any other way.

  Jack McDevitt

  Men, Ideas, Long

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• A physician who treated me as a nervous case for a while said in the end "No! It is not a matter of your nerves; it is I who am nervous".

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Nerves, Matter, Nervous

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.396, Penguin

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• Physician, help yourself: thus help your patient too. Let this be his best help: that he may behold with his eyes the man who heals himself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Health, Eye, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.120, Penguin

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• At some time in the future scientists, physicians, mediums and healers will have to work together to perfect the science of the whole.

  Betty Shine

  Healing, Health, Perfect

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• I think the way we think about cancer, the way we treat cancer, has dramatically changed in the last century. There is an enormous amount of options that a physician can provide today, right down from curing patients, treating patients or providing patients with psychic solace or pain relief.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Pain, Cancer, Thinking

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• Physicians who care for adults generally don't think about vaccines as much as pediatricians do, and adults think of vaccines as a kid thing.

  Paul A. Offit

  Kids, Thinking, Vaccines

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• No organization, whether it's police or physicians or whatever, wants to have its errors held up to the light of day, but it's wrong, as is coming out so well.

  William P. Leahy

  Errors, Light, Organization

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• The Christian Bible is a drug store. It´s contents have remained the same but the medical practice continues. For 1,800 years these changes were slight--scarcely noticeable... The dull and ignorant physician day and night, and all the days and all the nights, drenched his patient with vast and hideous doses of the most repulsive drugs to be found in the store´s stock. He kept him religion sick for eighteen centuries, and allowed him not a well day during all that time.

  Mark Twain

  Christian, Night, Practice

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• Medicine is not merely a science but an art. The character of the physician may act more powerfully upon the patient than the drugs employed.

  Paracelsus

  Art, Character, Medicine

  Paracelsus (1918). “The Life and the Doctrines of Philippus Theophrastus, Bombast of Hohenheim Known by the Name of Paracelsus: Extracted and Translated from His Rare and Extensive Works and from Some Unpublished Manuscripts”

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• I trained initially as a physical chemist, and then, after becoming interested in biology, I went to medical school and learned how to be a physician. So, I'm a physician scientist.

  Francis Collins

  School, Becoming, Medical

  "Faith & Reason" TV Program Interview, www.pbs.org.

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• The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.

  Abraham Verghese

  Reform, Care, Lines

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• What's important is that people give the kinds of reasons that can be understood and appraised apart from their particular comprehensive doctrines: for example, that they argue against physician-assisted suicide not just by speculating about God's wrath or the afterlife, but by talking about what they see as assisted suicide's potential injustices.

  John Rawls

  Suicide, Talking, Afterlife

  Interview with Bernard G. Prusak, www.commonwealmagazine.org. September 25, 1998.

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• As a physician who knows the importance of body image to our overall health, I wanted to have a way to inspire women to love their bodies no matter what size or shape they are. This is possible!!! And I know EXACTLY how to do this because I've done it myself and I've helped thousands of others to do the same thing. It's women's health at its most fundamental level!

  Christiane Northrup

  Inspire, Women's Health, Fundamentals

  Source: www.drfranklipman.com

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• He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.

  Tacitus

  Art, Years, Medicine

  "Annals", Book VI, Chapter XLVI, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p.502-04, 1922.

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• A disorderly patient makes the physician cruel.

  Publilius Syrus

  Medicine, Patient

  "Maxims".

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