PHYSICIANS QUOTES II
quotations about physicians
A young physician fattens the churchyard.
FRENCH PROVERB
He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he who prevents it is the safest physician.
THOMAS FULLER
attributed, Practical Spelling: A Text Book for Use in Commercial Schools
The physician heals, Nature makes well.
ARISTOTLE
Nicomachean Ethics
'Doctors!' said Mr. Leslie, wiping the whole of the Royal College of Physicians off the face of the world with this withering remark.
ANGELA THIRKELL
Wild Strawberries
Now and then occasions arise in which the physician is bound to take up the position of teacher and mentor, but it must be done with great caution, and the patient should be educated to liberate and to fulfill his own nature and not to resemble ourselves.
SIGMUND FREUD
attributed, Oxford Dictionary of Medical Quotations
I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician. My intent wasn't to save the world as much as to heal myself. Few doctors will admit this, certainly not young ones, but subconsciously, in entering the profession, we must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE
Cutting for Stone
A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more than even the whole man--he must view the man in his world.
HARVEY CUSHING
attributed, Man Adapting
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.
SAMUEL HOPKINS ADAMS
"The Sure-Cure School", Collier's Weekly
God healeth and the physician hath the thanks.
ENGLISH PROVERB
The true physician is also a ruler having the human body as a subject, and is not a mere money-maker.
PLATO
The Dialogues of Plato
A man is a poor physician who has not two or three remedies ready for use in every case of illness.
ASCLEPIADES
attributed, Oxford Dictionary of Medical Quotations
Every physician almost hath his favourite disease.
HENRY FIELDING
Tom Jones
When fate arrives the physician becomes a fool.
ARABIC PROVERB
The best cure for a sick soul is love,
But even the most advanced physician
Cannot prescribe it as medicine.
SUZY KASSEM
"Incomplete Science", Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem