Physicians Quotes
-
I am dying with the help of too many physicians.
-
Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
-
We physicians who shepherd human life from birth to death have a moral imperative to resist with all our being the drift toward the brink. The threatened inhabitants on this fragile planet must speak out for those yet unborn, for posterity has no lobby with politicians.
-
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.
-
Hope awakens courage. He who can implant courage in the human soul is the best physician.
-
We physicians protest the outrage of holding the entire world hostage. We protest the moral obscenity that each of us is being continuously targeted for extinction. We protest the ongoing increase in overkill. We protest the expansion of the arms race to space. We protest the diversion of scarce resources from aching human needs. Dialogue without deeds brings the calamity ever closer, as snail-paced diplomacy is outdistanced by missile-propelled technology. We physicians demand deeds to implement further deeds which will lead to the abolition of all nuclear weaponry. We recognise that before abolition can become a reality, the nuclear arms race must be halted.
-
The most dangerous physicians are those born actors who imitate born physicians with a perfectly deceptive guile.
-
The German system is way less fair than it is expected to be, and the difference is becoming bigger. The private system, with its privilege to pay doctors and hospitals better, is basically putting the whole system at jeopardy, because many first-class hospitals and first-class physicians are wasting their time on trivial cases of privately insured and are no longer accessible for the difficult cases from the public system, despite [the fact] that the hospitals and also the education of those professionals is paid for by public money.
-
Physicians think they do a lot for a patient when they give his disease a name.
-
Most physicians regard abortion as a stigmatized operation done by people who are otherwise incompetent and can't do anything else.
-
Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
-
Ask me no reason why I love you; for though Love use Reason for his physician, he admits him not for his counsellor.
-
We physicians have focused on the nuclear threat as the singular issue of our era. We are not indifferent to other human rights and hard-won civil liberties. But first we must be able to bequeath to our children the most fundamental of all rights, which preconditions all others; the right to survival.
-
Although you feel tepid, approach with confidence, for the greater your infirmity the more you stand in need of a physician.
-
Physicians think they are doing something for you by labeling what you have as a disease.
-
The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.
-
The cure of many diseases remains unknown to the physicians of Hellosbecause they do not study the whole person.
-
Most psychologists treat the mind as disembodied, a phenomenon with little or no connection to the physical body. Conversely, physicians treat the body with no regard to the mind or the emotions. But the body and mind are not separate, and we cannot treat one without the other.
-
In the wake of the Supreme Court of Canada decision (Chaoulli-Zeliotis), the Canadian Medicare system is about to be redesigned. Physicians must not just sit at the table, but must position themselves at the head, where they can lead and direct the nature of that design.
-
Let us show the world that a difference of opinion upon medical subjects is not incompatible with medical friendships; and in so doing, let us throw the whole odium of the hostility of physicians to each other upon their competition for business and money.
-
The estimated total number of iatrogenic deaths-that is, deaths induced inadvertently by a physician or surgeon or by medical treatment or diagnostic procedures in the US annually is 783,936.......while 553,251 died of cancer.
-
When it comes to physicians there is a common thread that is a major barrier to solving our concerns. We are divided. The result is a divide and conquer scenario, in which we negotiate as adversaries, first with government and then with one another about our relative worth, while the conqueror observes and continues to rule.
-
Taking a lady's hand gives her confidence in her physician.
-
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.
