Physicians Quotes - Page 7

• It is easy for men to give advice, but difficult for one's self to follow; we have an example in physicians: for their patients they order a strict regime, for themselves, on going to bed, they do all that they have forbidden to others.

  Philemon

  Men, Self, Order

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• Medicine would be the ideal profession if it did not involve giving pain.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Pain, Medicine, Giving

  The Health Master Ch.3

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• Often the confidence of the patient in his physician does more for the cure of his disease than the physician with all his remedies. Reasserting the statement by Avicenna.

  Henri de Mondeville

  Medicine, Doe, Disease

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• Printer's ink, when it spells out a doctor's promise to cure, is one of the subtlest and most dangerous of poisons.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Doctors, Medicine, Promise

  Samuel Hopkins Adams (1912). “The Great American fraud”

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• There is only one cardinal rule: One must always listen to the patient.

  Oliver Sacks

  Science, Medicine, Diagnosis

  Oliver Sacks (2013). “Migraine”, p.309, Vintage

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• Good physicians are rarely dispassionate. They agonize and self-doubt over patients.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Self, Doubt, Patient

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• Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician.

  Matthew Prior

  Night, Medicine, Yesterday

  'The Remedy Worse than the Disease'

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• Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.

  Marcel Proust

  Suffering, Certain, Dues

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.578, Wordsworth Editions

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• Most physicians regard abortion as a stigmatized operation done by people who are otherwise incompetent and can't do anything else.

  Warren Hern

  People, Abortion, Done

  American Medical News, September 5, 1994.

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• I became a physician in order to help save lives. I am at once a physician, a citizen, and a woman, and I am not willing to stand aside and allow the concept of expendable human lives to turn this great land of ours into just another exclusive reservation where only the perfect, the privileged, and the planned have the right to live.

  Mildred Fay Jefferson

  Order, Land, Perfect

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• Given one has before oneself a strong, healthy, youth rich in spirited blood and a powerless, weak, cachectic old man scarcely capable of breathing. If now the physician wishes to practise the rejuvenating art on the latter, he should make silver tubes which fit into each other: open then the artery of the healthy person and introduce one of the tubes into it and fasten it into the artery; thereupon he opens also the artery of the ill person.

  Andreas Libavius

  Strong, Art, Men

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• But what is quackery? It is commonly an attempt to cure the diseases of a man by addressing his body alone. There is need of a physician who shall minister to both soul and body at once, that is, to man. Now he falls between two stools.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fall, Men, Soul And Body

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Illustrated "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers"”, p.257, Princeton University Press

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• Let the young know they will never find a more interesting, more instructive book than the patient himself.

  Giorgio Baglivi

  Book, Science, Interesting

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• No man ought to commit his life into the
  hands of that Physician, who is ignorant of Astrologic:
  because he is a Physician of no value.

  Nicholas Culpeper

  Men, Hands, Ignorant

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• The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman.

  Daniel D. Palmer

  Drs, Quiet, Introvert

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• A modern hospital is like Grand Central Station—all noise and hubbub, and is filled with smoking physicians, nurses, orderlies, patients and visitors. Soft drinks are sold on each floor and everybody guzzles these popular poisons. The stench of chemicals offends the nose, while tranquillizers substitute for quietness.

  Herbert M. Shelton

  Nurse, Smoking, Poison

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• Within every patient there resides a doctor, and we as physicians are at our best when we we put our patients in touch with the doctor inside themselves.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Doctors, Patient

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• The most devastating indictment of the president's proposal is that it threatens to destroy virtually everything about American health care that's worth preserving. Under the plan's layers of regulation and oversight, even seeing a doctor whenever you like will be no easy matter: access to physicians will be carefully regulated by gatekeepers; referrals to specialists will be strongly discouraged; second opinions will be almost unheard of; and the availability of new drugs will be limited.

  William Kristol

  Availability, Doctors, Drug

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• The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Sweet, Mistake, Home

  N.Y. Times Magazine, 4 Oct. 1953

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• Insurance companies, whether private or government owned, must be compelled to pay for health-promoting measures. In turn, this will encourage physicians to offer such treatments in earnest.

  Andrew Weil

  Government, Pay, Treatment

  "The Question No One Asks About Healthcare" by Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 25, 2009.

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• As any doctor can tell you, the most crucial step toward healing is having the right diagnosis. If the disease is precisely identified, a good resolution is far more likely. Conversely, a bad diagnosis usually means a bad outcome, no matter how skilled the physician.

  Andrew Weil

  Healing, Mean, Doctors

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The means by which I preserve my own health are, temperance, early rising, and spunging the body every morning with cold water, a practice I have pursued for thirty years ; and though I go from this heated theatre into the squares of the Hospital, in the severest winter nights, with merely silk stockings on my legs, yet I scarcely ever have a cold.

  Astley Cooper

  Morning, Health, Mean

  Sir Astley Cooper (1825). “The Lectures of Sir Astley Cooper: On the Principles and Practice of Surgery”, p.58

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• My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.

  Abraham Verghese

  Technology, Feelings, Body

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• Quacks are a part of our culture, and we all fall prey to them. Who among us can say, for sure, that even our own personal physicians are honest and competent?

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Fall, Culture, Honest

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.85, Pan Macmillan

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• What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?

  Benjamin Spock

  Peace, Children, War

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