Physician Quotes

• 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
  • Society
  • Illusion
  • Priest

• The world is deathly ill. It is dying. The Great Physician has already signed the death certificate. Yet, there is still a great work for Christians to do. They are to be streams of living water, channels of mercy to those who are still in the world. It is possible for them to do this because they are overcomers.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • World
  • Work
  • Great

• For we are not all equally afflicted with the same disease or all in need of the same severe cure. This is the reason why we see different persons disciplined with different crosses. The heavenly Physician takes care of the well-being of all his patients; he gives some a milder medicine and purifies others by more shocking treatments, but he omits no one; for the whole world, without exception, is ill (Deut 32:15).

  

  John Calvin
  • Disease
  • Cure
  • Patients

• The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Disease
  • Patient
  • Physician

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

  

  Samuel Wilson
  • Want
  • Decided
  • Physician

• 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
  • Life
  • Physician
  • No Value

• A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.

  

  Hippocrates
  • God
  • Wisdom
  • Lover

• Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Patients
  • Physician
  • Recover

• A physician who treated me as a nervous case for a while said in the end "No! It is not a matter of your nerves; it is I who am nervous".

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Treated
  • Nerves
  • Physician

• Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Life is
  • Judgement
  • Physician

• A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Knowledge
  • Physician
  • Astrology

• Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering fatigue of years.

  

  George Eliot
  • Death
  • Physician
  • Journeying

• In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

  

  Plato
  • City
  • Politics
  • Physician

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

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Religious
  • Physician
  • Mundane

• The air of caricature never fails to show itself in the products of reason applied relentlessly and without correction. The observation of clinical facts would seem to be a pursuit of the physician as harmless as it is indispensable. But it seemed irresistibly rational to certain minds that diseases should be as fully classifiable as are beetles and butterflies. This doctrine ... bore perhaps its richest fruit in the hands of Boissier de Sauvauges. In his Nosologia Methodica published in 1768 ... this Linnaeus of the bedside grouped diseases into ten classes, 295 genera, and 2400 species.

  

  Wilfred Trotter
  • Doctrine
  • Diseases
  • Caricature

• 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
  • Help
  • Patient
  • Physician

• The physician is only nature's assistant.

  

  Galen
  • Physician
  • Assistant

• A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he must view the man in his world.

  

  Harvey Cushing
  • World
  • Man
  • Diseased organ

• 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
  • Consider
  • Physician

• But I have had some delightful thoughts of late from just hearing the title of a book, God’s Method with the Maladies of the Soul. It gives one such a conception of the seeming ills of life: to think of Him as our Physician, the ills all remedies, the deprivations only a wholesome regimen, the losses all gains. Why, as I study this individual case and that, see how patiently and persistently He tries now this remedy now that, and how infallibly He cures the souls that submit to His remedies, I love Him so! I love Him so! And I am so astonished that we are restive under His unerring hand! Think how He dealt with me. My soul was sick unto death, sick with worldliness and self-pleasing folly. There was only one way of making me listen to reason and that was just the way He took. He snatched me right out of the world and shut me up in one room, crippled, helpless, and alone, and set me to thinking, thinking, thinking till I saw the emptiness and shallowness of all in which I had hitherto been involved. And then He sent you and your mother to show me the reality of life and to reveal to me my invisible, unknown Physician. Can I love Him with half my heart? Can I be asking questions as to how much I am to pay toward the debt I owe Him?

  

  Elizabeth Prentiss
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Reason

• Doctor Johnson said, that in sickness there were three things that were material; the physician, the disease, and the patient: and if any two of these joined, then they get the victory; for, Ne Hercules quidem contra duos [Not even Hercules himself is a match for two]. If the physician and the patient join, then down goes the disease; for then the patient recovers: if the physician and the disease join, that is a strong disease; and the physician mistaking the cure, then down goes the patient: if the patient and the disease join, then down goes the physician; for he is discredited.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Victory
  • Disease
  • Physician

• The best physician is also a philosopher.

  

  Galen
  • Philosopher
  • Physician

• The first quality to be named must always be the power of attention, of giving one's whole mind to the patient without the interposition of anything of oneself. It sounds simple but only the very greatest doctors ever fully attain it. ... The second thing to be striven for is intuition. This sounds an impossibility, for who can control that small quiet monitor? But intuition is only interference from experience stored and not actively recalled. ... The last aptitude I shall mention that must be attained by the good physician is that of handling the sick man's mind.

  

  Wilfred Trotter
  • Mind
  • Attention
  • Patient

• The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Care
  • Healthy
  • Physician

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