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• Misrepresented its own studies and the concerns of physicians suggesting the drug may increase the risk of heart problems.

  Greg Abbott

  Heart, Drug, Risk

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• The physician, to the extent he is a physician, considers only the good of the patient in what he prescribes, and his own not at all

  Plato

  Patient

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• Otis Brawley is one of America's truly outstanding physician scientists. In How We Do Harm, he challenges all of us-- physicians, patients, and communities-- to recommit ourselves to the pledge to 'do no harm.'

  David Satcher

  America, Community, Challenges

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• Great physicians and nurses, skilled, caring and unparalleled in their training, intervened in my life and probably saved it. I was lucky but other Americans are not. It is time to speak again and stand again for the ideal that in the richest nation ever on this planet, it is wrong for 41 million Americans, most of them in working families, to worry at night and wake up in the morning without the basic protection of health insurance.

  John F. Kerry

  Morning, Caring, Night

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• To the sick man the physician when he enters seems to have three faces, those of a man, a devil, a god. When the physician first comes and announces the safety of the patient, then the sick man says: "Behold a God or a guardian angel!

  John Owen

  Angel, Men, Safety

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, p. 287-88, 1922.

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• Silence is a trick when it imposes. Pedants and scholars, churchmen and physicians, abound in silent pride.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Pride, Silence, Pedants

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• I decided I wanted to be a physician when I was seven years old.

  Samuel Wilson

  Years, Seven, Wanted

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• I have the same opinion of dances that physicians have of mushrooms: the best of them are good for nothing.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Dance, Mushrooms, Dancing

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• There are some modern practitioners, who declaim against medical theory in general, not considering that to think is to theorize; and that no one can direct a method of cure to a person labouring under disease, without thinking, that is, without theorizing; and happy therefore is the patient, whose physician possesses the best theory.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Science, Thinking, Disease

  Erasmus Darwin, Robert Waring Darwin (1794). “Zoonomia; or, The laws of organic life ...”, p.2

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• We do not accost a physician as we do any mere nobody; nor a magistrate as we do a private individual. We try to get some advantage from the skill of the one and the position of the other. Walk in the sun, and your shadow will follow you, whether you will or not.

  Saint Basil

  Skills, Shadow, Trying

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• As far as physicians go, chance is more valuable than knowledge.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Chance, Valuable, Chances Are

  "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book II, Ch. 37, 1595.

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• The physician who knows only medicine, knows not even medicine.

  Mark Twain

  Medicine, Knows

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• Only in education, never in the life of farmer, sailor, merchant, physician, or laboratory experimenter, does knowledge mean primarily a store of information aloof from doing.

  John Dewey

  Knowledge, Mean, Information

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.189, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The healthy know not of their health, but only the sick: this is the physician's aphorism, and applicable in a far wider sense than he gives it.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Health, Giving, Sick

  Thomas Carlyle (1881). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.1

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• We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.

  Florence Nightingale

  School, Soul, Body

  Florence Nightingale (2008). “The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”

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• You are taken sick; you send for a physician; he comes in, stays ten minutes, prescribes for you a healing medicine, and charges you three or four dollars. You call this 'extortionate' - forgetting the medical books he must have waded through, the revolting dissections he must have witnessed and participated in, and the medical lectures he must have digested, to have enabled him to pronounce on your case so summarily and satisfactorily.

  Fanny Fern

  Book, Taken, Healing

  FANNY FERN (1857). “FRESH LEAVES”, p.54

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• Man without religion is a diseased creature, who would persuade himself he is well and needs not a physician; but woman without religion is raging and monstrous.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Men, Religion, Needs

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• Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore, trust the physician and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility.

  Khalil Gibran

  Pain, Self, Sick

  Khalil Gibran, “On Pain”

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• We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot. I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician. My intent wasn't to save the world as much as to heal myself. Few doctors will admit this, certainly not young ones, but subconsciously, in entering the profession, we must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.

  Abraham Verghese

  Believe, Doctors, Lucky

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• Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind; therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Astrology

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.152, Vivekananda Kendra

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• Herbs are the friend of the physician and the pride of cooks.

  Charlemagne

  Pride, Garden, Herbs

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• Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.

  Hippocrates

  Reality, Titles, Wellness

  Hippocrates (1849). “The Genuine Works of Hippocrates”, p.784

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• One of the first things which a physician
  says to his patient is, ~Let me see your tongue.~ A spiritual advisor
  might often do the same.

  Nehemiah Adams

  Spiritual, Might, Tongue

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• Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires. Let us trust his skill and thank him for his prescription.

  Isaac Newton

  Wise, Skills, Medicine

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• Nature itself is the best physician.

  Hippocrates

  Funny Inspirational

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