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Quotes About Physician

Prevention of disease must become the goal of every physician.
~ Henry E. Sigerist
The physician is happy in the attachment of the families in which he practices. All think he has saved one of them, and he finds himself everywhere a welcome guest, a home in every house.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.
~ William Osler
Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered.
~ Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.
~ Thomas Traherne
In September 1919, Woodrow Wilson suffered a series of debilitating strokes that should have led to his resignation. For over a month, the president was so sick that he received no visitors and his wife, Edith Galt, and physician, Dr. Cary Grayson, essentially took over the affairs of state.
~ Jared Cohen
What is the use of discussing a man's abstract right to food or medicine? The question is upon the method of procuring and administering them. In that deliberation I shall always advise to call in the aid of the farmer and the physician, rather than the professor of metaphysics.
~ Edmund Burke
Qual é a utilidade de discutir o direito abstrato de um homem a alimentos ou medicamentos? A questão é sobre o método de adquiri-los e administrá-los. Nessa deliberação, eu sempre aconselho a pedir a ajuda do agricultor e do médico em vez do professor de metafísica.
~ Edmund Burke
Do not take Vigilante if you are suffering from high blood pressure, low blood pressure, or normal blood pressure. Consult physician if you experience chest pains, swollen eyelids, elongated ears. . .
~ Edward St. Aubyn
Ferguson, testified about coronavirus to a committee of the British Parliament. Ferguson calls himself an epidemiologist, though he is not a physician and his doctorate is in theoretical physics.
~ Alex Berenson
This is the unluckiest day I've had since my rich uncle changed doctors.
~ Rex Stout
I like not charity unreasonably large for the exempting of ourselves from the labour of duty: I would not choose such a charitable physician that would make his patients believe that they are in no danger, to save himself the labour of attending them for the cure.
~ Richard Baxter
That physician is no better than a murderer, that negligently delayeth till his patient be dead or past cure (389).
~ Richard Baxter
In 1849 a Titusville sawmill owner, Ebenezer Brewer, had sent to his son Francis Brewer, a young physician practicing in Vermont, five gallons of Seneca oil from the creek that ran below his sawmill, "with the assurance," his son said later, "that it possessed great medicinal and curative properties.
~ Richard Rhodes
I have a doctor's note.
~ Rick Riordan
Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art.
~ Ovid
A physician who treats himself has a fool for a patient.
~ William Osler
The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.
~ William Osler
There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs.
~ William Osler
One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.... Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.
~ William Osler
In the first place, in the physician or surgeon no quality takes rank with imperturbability, and I propose for a few minutes to direct your attention to this essential bodily virtue.
~ William Osler
Kill thy physician, and the fee bestowUpon the foul disease.
~ William Shakespeare
Continuation of the outbreak depended on the likelihood of encounters between people who were infectious and people who could be infected. This idea became known as the "mass action principle." It was all about math. The same year, 1906, a Scottish physician named John Brownlee proposed an alternate view, contrary to Hamer's. Brownlee worked as a clinician and hospital administrator
~ David Quammen
In 1846, a Danish physician named Peter Panum witnessed a measles epidemic on the Faroe Islands, a remote archipelago north of Scotland, and drew some keen inferences about how the ailment seemed to pass from person to person, with a delay of about two weeks (what we'd now call an incubation period) between exposure and symptoms.
~ David Quammen