Quotes by Physicians The physician, to the extent he is a physician, considers only the good of the patient in what he prescribes, and his own not at all Plato physicians patient Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest, but that all seek the good of their patients? For we have agreed that a physician strictly so called, is a ruler of bodies, and not a maker of money, have we not? Plato physicians body plato 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 but wait. Rainer Maria Rilke physicians over-you waiting Every educated physician knows that most diseases are not appreciably helped by medicine. Richard Clarke Cabot physicians medicine health I had rather follow you to your grave than see you owe your life to any but a regular-bred physician. Richard Brinsley Sheridan physicians graves Our reliance on the physician is a kind of despair of ourselves. Ralph Waldo Emerson physicians despair doctors To a physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ. Ralph Waldo Emerson amplification physicians men I realized in order to be involved in health policy, you really had to understand more than the individual patient that we as physicians, are taught to think about. Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey physicians order thinking I had an interest in health policy and a realization that, as an academic physician, one of the things you're always looking to do is to have your clinical interests and your scholarly interests overlap and reinforce one another. Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey physicians academic realization Well, I would never do a study because I'm a practicing physician. I mean, all I do is treat people. Robert Atkins physicians mean 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 for more than six times as much as another drug that does the same thing, made by the same company. Robert Bazell physicians drug doubt There are dull and bright, sacred and profane, coarse and fine egotists. It is a disease that, like influenza, falls on all constitutions. In the distemper known to physicians as chorea, the patient sometimes turns round, and continues to spin slowly in one spot. Is egotism a metaphysical varioloid of this malady? Ralph Waldo Emerson physicians dull fall I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician. Robert Jarvik scientist medical physicians There is a clear matter that I am not a practicing physician; I have never been a practitioner; everybody has known for decades. Robert Jarvik physicians clear matter The physician...is the flower (such as it is) of our civilization. Robert Louis Stevenson physicians flower civilization 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 physician can do little in the great lazar-house of society. He acts the wisest part who retires from the contagion. Robert Southey physicians house men The problem for a Paracelsian physician like me is that I see diseases as disguises in which people present me with their wretchedness. Robertson Davies physicians disease people The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and the social problems should largely be solved by them. Rudolf Virchow physicians poor problem Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition. Rudolf Virchow physicians law science Imprisoned quacks are always replaced by new ones. Rudolf Virchow quacks replaced physicians «56789101112131415»