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• The cure of many diseases remains unknown to the physicians of Hellos (Greece) because they do not study the whole person.

  Socrates

  Dark, Age, Disease

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• Nature, time and patience are three great physicians.

  Henry George Bohn

  Funny, Patience, Time

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• One quarter of Medicare beneficiaries have five or more chronic conditions, sees an average of 13 physicians each year, and fills 50 prescriptions per year.

  Clayton Christensen

  Average, Years, Quarters

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• It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients.

  Aristotle

  Science, Use, Patient

  Politics VII.ii

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• A physician is nothing but a consoler of the mind.

  Petronius

  Medicine, Mind

  "The Satyricon". Book by Petronius, 1st century AD.

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• And it has been sarcastically said, that there is a wide difference between a good physician and a bad one, but a small difference between a good physician and no physician at all; by which it is meant to insinuate, that the mischievous officiousness of art does commonly more than counterbalance any benefit derivable from it.

  Gilbert Blane

  Art, Medicine, Differences

  Gilbert Blane (1821). “Elements of Medical Logick”, p.10

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• The physician's ability to reassure the patient is a major factor in activating the body's own healing system.

  Norman Cousins

  Healing, Body, Patient

  Norman Cousins (1989). “Head First: The Biology of Hope and the Healing Power of the Human Spirit”, Penguin Group USA

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• A doctor is nothing more than consolation for the spirit.

  Petronius

  Doctors, Spirit, Consolation

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• To a physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Amplification, Organs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.389

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• The examining physician often hesitates to make the necessary examination because it involves soiling the finger.

  William James Mayo

  Examination, Fingers, Examining

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• A broken heart is a distemper which kills many more than is generally imagined, and would have a fair title to a place in the bills of mortality, did it not differ in one instance from all other diseases, namely, that no physicians can cure it.

  Henry Fielding

  Heart, Broken, Despair

  Henry Fielding (1882). “The Works of Henry Fielding, Esq: Henry Fielding, by Leslie Stephen. The history of Tom Jones, a foundling”

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• 'Physician, heal thyself' is more true in matters religious than mundane.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religious, Religion, Matter

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.186, Tara Publishing

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• God has administered to us of the present age, a bitter draught and a harsh physician, on account of our abounding infirmities.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Leadership, Courage, Bitter

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• The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and the social problems should largely be solved by them.

  Rudolf Virchow

  Problem, Poor, Natural

  Rudolf Virchow, 'The Doctor' (Ervin H. Ackernecht)

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• Physicians are like kings- They brook no contradiction.

  John Webster

  Kings, Doctors, Contradiction

  'The Duchess of Malfi' (1623) act 5, sc. 2, l. 72

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• The physicians belief in the treatment and the patients faith in the physician exert a mutually reinforcing effect; the result is a powerful remedy
  that is almost guaranteed to produce an
  improvement and sometimes a cure

  Petr Skrabanek

  Powerful, Patient, Belief

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• Death a friend that alone can bring the peace his treasures cannot purchase, and remove the pain his physicians cannot cure.

  Mortimer Collins

  Death, Pain, Treasure

  The Village Comedy Vol. II, Ch. 110

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• Any physician who advertises a positive cure for any disease, who issues nostrum testimonials, who sells his services to a secret remedy, or who diagnoses and treats by mail patients he has never seen, is a quack.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Medicine, Issues, Secret

  The Great American Fraud p. 39. Collier and Sons (1905)

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• Physicians mend or end us, Secundum artem; but although we sneer - In health - when ill we call them to attend us, Without the least propensity to jeer

  Lord Byron

  Medicine, Ends, Ill

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.259, Simon and Schuster

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• Every Alchymist is a Physician or a Sope-boyler.

  Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa

  Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (1676). “The Vanity of Arts and Sciences”, p.313

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• A physician is an unfortunate gentleman who is every day required to perform a miracle; namely to reconcile health with intemperance.

  Voltaire

  Health, Miracle, Gentleman

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• There are three classes of human beings: men, women and women physicians.

  William Osler

  Men, Class, Three

  "Women in Medicine". Book by Carol Lopate and Josiah Macy, Jr., 1968.

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• Let the surgeon take care to regulate the whole regimen of the patient's life for joy and happiness by promising that he will soon be well, by allowing his relatives and special friends to cheer him and by having someone tell him jokes, and let him be solaced also by music on the viol or psaltery. The surgeon must forbid anger, hatred, and sadness in the patient, and remind him that the body grows fat from joy and thin from sadness.

  Henri de Mondeville

  Cheer, Sadness, Science

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• The Lord, before His Incarnation, let mankind experience all the bitterness of sin, all their powerlessness to eradicate it; and when all longed for a Deliverer, then He appeared, the most wise, all-powerful Physician and Helper. When men hungered and thirsted after righteousness, as it grew weaker, then the everlasting righteousness came.

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Wise, Powerful

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• Everything but truth becomes loathed in a sick-room ... Let the nurse avow that the medicine is nauseous. Let the physician declare that the treatment will be painful. Let sister, or brother, or friend, tell me that I must never look to be well. When the time approaches that I am to die, let me be told that I am to die, and when.

  Harriet Martineau

  Brother, Truth, Medicine

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