Quotes About Physician

The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed.

Any physician who advertises a positive cure for any disease, who issues nostrum testimonials, who sells his services to a secret remedy, or who diagnoses and treats by mail patients he has never seen, is a quack.

He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.

It is difficult to remain an emperor in presence of a physician, and difficult even to keep one's essential quality as man.

No, De Roos said. You mustn't thank me. The relatives of patients thank the physician as if the physician were God. It's no good, and if the patient dies it turns to ash—not just for them, but, as you can imagine, for me. I'll see you later.

That very distinguished but now aged physician, Sir Omicron Pie, was still staying at Matching Priory.

The guinea fee, the principle of giving advice and of selling no medicine, the great resolve to keep a distinct barrier between the physician and the apothecary, and, above all, the hatred of the contamination of a bill, were strong in the medical mind of Barsetshire.

The physician and the philosopher have different ways of defining the diseases of the soul. For instance anger for the philosopher is a sentiment born of the desire to return an offense, whereas for the physician it is a surging of blood around the heart.

The first hospice was founded in England in 1967 by physician Dame Cicely Saunders.

Reading old Gray?  That's right.  Physician's library just three books:  'Gray's Anatomy' and Bible and Shakespeare.  Study.  You may become great doctor.

But though my disease is grievous, it is not desperate; I have a gracious and infallible Physician. I shall not die — but live, and declare the works of the Lord.

For the world is but a woman with all her mystery and loveliness; and though we may attend her as if we were physician, scientist, business partner, love will go quicker to reality than these and find the inner being of the world.

It is, no doubt, better for us to apply appropriate remedies to our diseases than to put our whole trust in the healing powers of nature. But it is better to put our trust in the healing powers of nature than to poison ourselves straight off by swallowing the contents of the first phial presented to us by any self-constituted physician.

A European physician has said something new about love. He has discovered that it is good for the nerves. It would seem to follow that, in case of nerve trouble, it ought to be prescribed.

In my life as an immigrant living in low-income communities, as an emergency physician and as a public health advocate, I have seen more preventable deaths than I can count or recall.

As a physician, I recognize that we all have an opportunity to enhance our health, and reduce our cancer risk. That is why I became involved with Less Cancer, a not-for-profit organization founded by Bill Couzens that is dedicated to the reduction of cancer risk.

I am a doctor. I have long experience with heart disease.

When Nicholas Flamel – one of the few who, according to the mystics and alchemists, was supposed to have discovered the Philosopher's Stone – bought a papyrus [19] book in Paris, reputedly "at a small price," it was a baptized Jewish physician, not a kabbalist, who in 1378, in the pilgrimage town of Santiago de Compostela, disclosed to him the meaning of the writing and therewith the secret of alchemy.

It is the way of life. We are born in others' pain; we perish in our own, and between beginning and end stands the physician. We help them into the world, we watch beside their sickbeds, we make their exits into immortality as painless as possible - at the last we stay to comfort those who remain. These are the obligations of our trade.

Averroës, or Ibn-Rushd, the chief jurist in Córdoba and also the court physician," said Joël. "He was the first medical man to describe the symptoms of what we call Parkinson's disease

But Arnold had also recommended a strategy palliative care physicians use when they have to talk about bad news with people—they "ask, tell, ask." They ask what you want to hear, then they tell you, and then they ask what you understood. So I asked.

Jesus Christ, the holy Saviour is the Great Physician of Souls.

The staff of such a monitoring center could represent the future "hospitalist"—not likely to be called a "home-ist"—a physician particularly trained and adept at the interface of machines and people. You might describe them as geeks with compassion, not necessarily an oxymoron.

With all the drive to cost transparency, there is not only little emphasis to make quality-of-care data available, but also it is extremely hard to come by. That's why the call of Guest and Quincy from Consumer Reports that "consumers should have better information about hospital and physician performance than they can glean from user reviews on Yelp, Zagat's, Angie's List, or other such sources" is such a tall order.