Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.

The physician...is the flower (such as it is) of our civilization.

The physician must not only be the healer, but often the consoler.

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

Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.

Employment is nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness.

Sexuality is not a leisure or part-time activity. It is a way of being.

We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.

To a physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ.

My doctor is a family physician. He treats my family and I support his.

Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.

There is only one cardinal rule: One must always listen to the patient.

'Physician, heal thyself' is more true in matters religious than mundane.

There are three classes of human beings: men, women and women physicians.

My parents both are physicians, and my grandfathers were both physicians.

There is no health; physicians say that we, at best, enjoy but neutrality.

I do like books on anatomy. I have to say I'm an amateur physician, I guess.

A half-educated physician is not valuable. He thinks he can cure everything.

A man without persistence will never make a good shaman or a good physician.

It is said to be the manner of hypochondriacs to change often their physician.

The best physician is he who can distinguish the possible from the impossible.

We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.

This is a sharp medicine, but it is a physician for all diseases and miseries.

DIAGNOSIS, n. A physician's forecast of disease by the patient's pulse and purse.

The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.

The consultant's first obligation is to the patient, not to his brother physician.

The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still.

Just be wrong. Just stand there in your wrongness and be wrong, and get used to it.

America is facing a looming shortage of doctors, nurses, and physicians' assistants.

Good physicians are rarely dispassionate. They agonize and self-doubt over patients.

Little does the sick man consult his own interests, who makes his physician his heir.

As with eggs, there is no such thing as a poor doctor, doctors are either good or bad.

A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.

Physicians think they are doing something for you by labeling what you have as a disease

Every educated physician knows that most diseases are not appreciably helped by medicine.

Hope awakens courage. He who can implant courage in the human soul is the best physician.

Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered.

The doctor is effective only when he himself is affected. Only the wounded physician heals.

APOTHECARY, n. The physician's accomplice, undertaker's benefactor and grave worm's provider

The words of Christ are of more worth than the opinions of all the physicians in the universe.

Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.

The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital.

If the patient has been to more than four physicians, nutrition is probably the medical answer.

A physician is one who pours drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less.

I was a bad practicing physician because I was never sure of the diagnosis or of the treatment.

Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown.

It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients.

Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures.

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.

Physicians still retain something of their priestly origin; they would gladly do what they forbid.

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