Nature performs the cure, the physician takes the fee..
The physician knows that his little black bag can carry him only so far and that the body's own healing system is the main resource..
On average, physicians interrupt patients within eighteen seconds of when they begin telling their story..
Well, I would never do a study because I'm a practicing physician. I mean, all I do is treat people..
If anyone doubts the influence of drug company ads on patients and physicians - consider all those wasted billions of dollars for a pill that sells f….
But tell me, this physician of whom you were just speaking, is he a moneymaker, an earner of fees, or a healer of the sick?.
I was told by a physician to avoid any line of work where people need to, um, depend on me for anything..
A physician, after he had felt the pulse of Pausanias, and considered his constitution, saying, "He ails nothing," "It is because, sir," he replied, ….
The lover and the physician are each popular from the same cause - we talk to them of nothing but ourselves..
Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown..
There is only one cardinal rule: One must always listen to the patient..
You are also the physician who must watch over yourself. But in the course of every illness there are many days in which the physician can do nothing….
There was a time when I believed in the persuadability of man, and had the mania of man-mending. Experience has taught me better. The ablest physicia….
More than one skillful physician has said that if one asks the right questions, the patient will make the diagnosis for you in his or her own words..
The surgery of the ancient Indian physicians was bold and skilful. A special branch of surgery was dedicated to rhinoplasty or operations for improvi….
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 a….
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 ….
Our role is to develop techniques that allow us to provide emergency life-saving procedures to injured patients in an extreme, remote environment wit….
The problem for a Paracelsian physician like me is that I see diseases as disguises in which people present me with their wretchedness..
Patients who are being kept alive by technology and want to end their lives already have a recognized constitutional right to stop any and all medica….
Americans tend to endorse the use of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia when the question is abstract and hypothetical..