Physicians Quotes - Page 24

• 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of Hohenheim Known by the Name of Paracelsus: Extracted and Translated from His Rare and Extensive Works and from Some Unpublished Manuscripts”

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• 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.

  Leon Botstein

  Artist, Faculty Members, Alternatives

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Two, Excess

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• 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?

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Thinking, Law

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• 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.

  John Dryden

  Writing, Enemy, Vices

  John Dryden (1850). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.123

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• I have heard that Tiberius used to say that that man was ridiculous, who after sixth years, appealed to a physician.

  Plutarch

  Men, Years, Medicine

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• Love is a chemical reaction, but it cannot be fully understood or defined by science. And though a body cannot exist without a soul, it too cannot be fully understood or defined by science. Love is the most powerful form of energy, but science cannot decipher its elements. Yet the best cure for a sick soul is love, but even the most advanced physician cannot prescribe it as medicine.

  Suzy Kassem

  Powerful, Love Is, Medicine

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• Creative energy is the essence of all healing...We physicians do nothing, we only help and encourage the physician within.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Healing, Essence, Creative

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• My daughter is a practicing physician so believe me I get a lot of the frustration from her. You get it from patients. For me personally, when I ask my doctor to send me my record, what I get is a scanned PDF of his hard copy! This is not good. It would be hopeless to work with a million people if you had to do this on paper, and one of the reasons this is the right time for this is because of the existence of EHRs.

  Francis Collins

  Daughter, Believe, Frustration

  Source: www.politico.com

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• More than one skillful physician has said that if one asks the right questions, the patient will make the diagnosis for you in his or her own words.

  Andrew Weil

  Diagnosis, Patient, Said

  Andrew Weil (2004). “Health and Healing: The Philosophy of Integrative Medicine”, p.92, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

  Francis of Assisi

  Men, Doors, Sick

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• 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.

  Hippocrates

  Art, Three, Disease

  Epidemics I

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• There are other dimensions of biotechnology. If you think of biotechnology like the Internet, it's not a category - it's an infrastructure that can be deployed to sustain or disrupt. In health care, the most complex problems at the high end have to be dealt with in a problem-solving mode by the best, most experienced physicians you can find.

  Clayton Christensen

  Thinking, Care, Dimensions

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• Only the wounded physician heals.

  Carl Jung

  Wisdom, Heal, Wounded

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• I quite like the transitions of being an actor, because you get to explore these little pockets of life. So if you're playing a builder you get to know about building, if you're playing a scientist or a physician or something you get to know about physics. And similarly with this world I like exploring their culture, that very sort of upper middle class, addictive... that's part of the reason I love it.

  Matt Smith

  Class, Pockets, Transition

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• People don't turn away from an attorney sitting in a wheelchair. If the guy has got the reputation for being the best attorney around, that's who you go with. But in show business, for some reason they're still reluctant to say an attorney or a physician or an interior decorator can be in a chair, or on crutches, or blind or any of the other things.

  Gerald McRaney

  People, Guy, Sitting

  Source: www.abilitymagazine.com

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• I feel like a physician, one who's done a scan of the patient's body and seen evidence of a potentially serious issue.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  Issues, Done, Body

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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