Quotes by Physicians A patient had a 50-50 chance of benefiting from visiting a physician as of 1910. Medicine was more like voodoo than science until the 20th Century. Abraham Flexner physicians medicine chance We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot. 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. but it can also deepen the wound. Abraham Verghese physicians doctors believe We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds. Abraham Verghese healthcare physicians average My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual. Abraham Verghese physicians technology feelings The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician. Abraham Verghese physicians reform care If the patient has been to more than four physicians, nutrition is probably the medical answer. Abram Hoffer physicians healing answers It takes approximately forty years for innovative thought to be incorporated into mainstream thought. I expect and hope that orthomolecular medicine, within the next five to ten years, will cease to be a specialty in medicine and that all physicians will be using nurition as an essential tool in treating disease. Abram Hoffer physicians medicine years O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse. Aeschylus physicians pain art Within every patient there resides a doctor, and we as physicians are at our best when we we put our patients in touch with the doctor inside themselves. Albert Schweitzer physicians doctors patient Sexuality is not a leisure or part-time activity. It is a way of being. Alexander Lowen physicians sex way Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know. Alexander Pope companion physicians men Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient. Ambrose Bierce physicians patient literature APOTHECARY, n. The physician's accomplice, undertaker's benefactor and grave worm's provider Ambrose Bierce physicians graves science BODY-SNATCHER, n. A robber of grave-worms. One who supplies the young physicians with that with which the old physicians have supplied the undertaker. Ambrose Bierce physicians body science DIAGNOSIS, n. A physician's forecast of disease by the patient's pulse and purse. Ambrose Bierce physicians pulse science Gout, a physician's name for the rheumatism of a rich patient Ambrose Bierce physicians gout names Doctors frequently get it wrong. One out of five patients today is in the hospital because incorrect treatment by a physician put him or her there. Andrew Saul physicians doctors today Insurance companies, whether private or government owned, must be compelled to pay for health-promoting measures. In turn, this will encourage physicians to offer such treatments in earnest. Andrew Weil physicians government pay 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. Andrew Weil diagnosis physicians patient Keep away from physicians. It is all probing and guessing and pretending with them. They leave it to Nature to cure in her own time, but they take the credit. As well as very fat fees. Anthony Burgess physicians doctors credit 1234567891011»
