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Quotes About Physician

The analyst's vulnerability has to be greater even than the vulnerability any other patient has to learn to accept. It is a good thing for an analyst to learn early that every patient suffers from the analytic process, but the vulnerability that the analyst must learn to accept goes beyond the humility that every physician must find toward the mystery of wounding and healing. The
~ John Beebe
First, it is important to remember that the origin of Freud's model lay, not in his clinical work with patients, but in ideas he had learned previously from his teachers—the physiologist Brücke, the psychiatrist Meynert, and the physician Breuer.
~ John Bowlby
I observe the physician with the same diligence as he the disease.
~ John Donne
As Sicknesse is the greatest misery, so the greatest misery of sicknes is solitude; when the infectiousness of the disease deterss them who should assist from coming; even the Phisician dares scarse come... it is an Outlawry, and excommunication upon the patient....
~ John Donne
There may still be people who think of Carl Gustav Jung only as a distinguished psychiatrist who enlarged our understanding of the mind and who also made important contributions to psychotherapy. He did both, but his variety of analysis is not simply concerned with the relief of neurotic symptoms; it promises a secular form of salvation. Jung was a spiritual teacher as well as a physician.
~ Anthony Storr
When fate arrives the physician becomes a fool.
~ Arabic proverb
It is easy to have some knowledge about honey, wine, and hellebore, of cautery and the use of the knife; but how they should be applied for restoring health, to whom and when, is no less a matter than to be a physician.
~ Aristotle
If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man being his own physician, for Nature is like that—agent and patient at once.
~ Aristotle
We'd like to have immediate answers to all of our questions. I think medicine in particular. I found it frustrating as a physician sometimes to not be able to tell someone exactly why something was happening to them. There are still so many mysteries in medicine.
~ Laurel Clark
Physician, heal thyself: then wilt thou also heal thy patient. Let it be his best cure to see with his eyes him who maketh himself whole.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Employment is nature's physician and is essential to human happiness.
~ Galen
When death is imminent and dying patients find their suffering unbearable, then the physician's role should shift from healing to relieving suffering in accord with the patient's wishes.
~ Marcia Angell
A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
~ Hippocrates
They that are intoxicated by self-conceit have interposed themselves between it and the Divine and infallible Physician. Witness how they have entangled all men, themselves included, in the mesh of their devices. They can neither discover the cause of the disease, nor have they any knowledge of the remedy.
~ Baha'u'llah
In my work as an emergency physician, I know that checklists can be helpful. They ensure complex procedures are done thoroughly and provide an extra assurance for safety. But they can also result in a 'cookbook' approach, where you get the same recipe of tests and medications as everyone else.
~ Leana S. Wen
Medicine must go back to nature and a physician should be the high priest of nature.
~ Rudolf Virchow
III. Hippocrates having cured many sicknesses, fell sick himself and died.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Hipócrates[207], tras sanar muchas enfermedades, enfermó él y murió. Los
~ Marcus Aurelius
I'm a physician. I've been blessed with ideas and resources to use technology to make the world a better place. That's what I would like to leave behind.
~ Patrick Soon-Shiong
I had rather follow you to your grave than see you owe your life to any but a regular-bred physician.
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Health that mocks the doctor's rules,Knowledge never learned of schools.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
To me, as a physician, when 1.78 million of our high school kids have tried an e-cigarette, and a lot of them are using them regularly ... that's like watching someone harm hundreds of thousands of children.
~ Tom Frieden
In the early 16th century the Italian physician Jacopo Berengario da Carpi, a pioneer in the science of anatomy, came up with the idea that perhaps 'brain commotion' was caused by the thrust of the soft structure of the brain against the solid case of the skull.
~ Jeanne Marie Laskas
A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
~ Samuel Butler