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Nature performs the cure, the physician takes the fee. — Benjamin Franklin

I am a scientist and I am a physician. So I write papers. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

The lover and the physician are each popular from the same cause - we talk to them of nothing but ourselves ... — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Feed sparingly and defy the physician. — James Howell

Physician, help yourself: thus help your patient too. Let this be his best help: that he may behold with his eyes the man who heals himself. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Sleep, thou patron of mankind, Great physician of the mind Who does nor pain nor sorrow know, Sweetest balm of every woe. — Sophocles

Fasting is the greatest remedy
the physician within. — Paracelsus

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

Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering fatigue of years. — George Eliot

Your accumulated offences do not surpass the multitude of God's mercies: your wounds do not surpass the great Physician's skill. — Cyril Of Jerusalem

The sun - my almighty physician. — Thomas Jefferson

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

Donald Goellnicht. The Poet-Physician: Keats and Medical Science. University of Pittsburgh Press: Pittsburgh, 1984, — Stephen Cope

The best physician is also a philosopher — Galen

Although you feel tepid, approach with confidence, for the greater your infirmity the more you stand in need of a physician. — Bonaventure

Figure 1-1 THE PHYSICIAN-AS-EXPERT MODEL. — Michael J. Green

The physician is only nature's assistant. — Galen

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

Hope awakens courage. He who can implant courage in the human soul is the best physician. — Karl Ludwig Von Knebel

We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master. — Florence Nightingale

As a physician, I am embarrassed by my profession's lack of interest in healthier lifestyles. We need to change the way we approach chronic disease. — Caldwell Esselstyn

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

The first physician who is known to have counted the pulse, Herophilos of Alexandria (born 300 B.C.), lived in Egypt. — James Henry Breasted

The healer and the killer both rely on the blade: the physician his scalpel, the assassin his dagger. — Fiona Paul

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

A physician is an unfortunate gentleman who is every day required to perform a miracle; namely to reconcile health with intemperance. — Voltaire

Not everything which comes from the birth parts of a woman is a human being. — Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz

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

FYODOR MIKHAYLOVICH DOSTOYEVSKY was born in Moscow in 1821, the second of a physician's seven children. When — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them? — Paracelsus

I'm a physician first and foremost. I will always be a physician. — Raul Ruiz

Aoun wrote of the search for 'that good physician who would say, 'I understand that this illness is happening to you, but we will face it together. — Pauline W. Chen

A mind stretched by new experience can never go back to its old dimensions." Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894), Progressive Physician, Author — Cary Ellis

The physician ... is the flower (such as it is) of our civilization. — Robert Louis Stevenson

I decided I wanted to be a physician when I was seven years old. — Samuel Wilson

Medicine is not merely a science but an art. The character of the physician may act more powerfully upon the patient than the drugs employed. — Paracelsus

It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick; I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners. — Anonymous

Only the wounded physician heals. — Carl Jung

There is no balm in Gilead, but there is balm in God. There is no physician among the creatures, but the Creator is Jehovah-rophi. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

From your confessor, lawyer and physician, hide not your case on no condition. — John Harington

Americans tend to endorse the use of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia when the question is abstract and hypothetical. — Ezekiel Emanuel

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass. — Hester Lynch Piozzi

A physician is nothing but a consoler of the mind. — Petronius

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

Sleep is the overlooked hero and the poor man's physician. Shakespeare — Stephen King

Your healing begins with a step of faith in the Great Physician, Jesus Christ. — Hector Perez

A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god. — Hippocrates

He's the best physician who knows the worthlessness of most medicines. — Benjamin Franklin

I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician. I think it's very upfront. I am a doctor. I have long experience with heart disease. — Robert Jarvik

We have worlds to save, Doctor Aziba."
"That sounds ... compelling," the physician allowed. — Alastair Reynolds

I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease. — John Donne

No man ought to commit his life into the
hands of that Physician, who is ignorant of Astrologic:
because he is a Physician of no value. — Nicholas Culpeper

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

I often think that the prime directive for me as a teacher of writing is akin to that for a physician, which is this: do no harm. — Chang-rae Lee

Intemperance is the physician's provider. — Publilius Syrus

Where once it was the physician who waged bellum contra morbum, the war against disease, now it's the whole society. — Susan Sontag

The physician treats, but nature heals. — Hippocrates

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind. — Paracelsus

The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician. — William J. Mayo

You ought to choose both physician and friend, not the most agreeable, but the most useful. — Epictetus

I don't necessarily want my physician making all my decisions. — Anne Wojcicki

This is the shade of difference: the door
of the physician should never be shut, the door of the priest should always be open. — Victor Hugo

Every physician almost hath his favourite disease. — Henry Fielding

The two fulcra of medicine are reason and observation. Observation is the clue to guide the physician in his thinking. — Giorgio Baglivi

I had rather follow you to your grave than see you owe your life to any but a regular-bred physician. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Physician, heal thyself: then wilt thou also heal thy patient. Let it be his best cure to see with his eyes him who maketh himself whole. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

The church on earth is full of souls healed by our beloved Physician; and the inhabitants of heaven confess that "he healed them all." Come, — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick. — Hippocrates

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? — Plato

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

The doctor is effective only when he himself is affected. Only the wounded physician heals — C. G. Jung

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

Nurses who determine the need for restraints must obtain a physician's order as soon as possible. — Janice Rider Ellis

When the great Physician restores the soul, he restores it completely. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Creative energy is the essence of all healing ... We physicians do nothing, we only help and encourage the physician within. — Albert Schweitzer

The physician's ability to reassure the patient is a major factor in activating the body's own healing system. — Norman Cousins

Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer. — George Herbert

I have heard that Tiberius used to say that that man was ridiculous, who after sixth years, appealed to a physician. — Plutarch

As lower-cost phones begin to penetrate, they'll become the educator and physician everywhere on the planet. — Peter Diamandis

In my own experience as a physician, I have not seen a miraculous healing, and I don't expect to see one. — Francis Collins

My job as a physician is to make sure I have provided my patients with the best options to make the decisions that affect their lives. — Ami Bera

worn out desk chair squeaked in protest as he leaned back. "Have your folks ever taken you to see a physician for your — Matthew Keith

To a physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The words ending in Ique do mocke the Physician (as Hectique, Paralitique, Apoplectique, Lethargique). — George Herbert

Healing comes from the healed; not from the physician. — Diana Gabaldon

The physician who knows only medicine, knows not even medicine. — Mark Twain

God is never absent from the affairs of men, though we are not conscious of Him very often. — Taylor Caldwell

The "standard physician employment agreement" is a mythical creature. — Dennis Hursh

When he can render no further aid, the physician alone can mourn as a man with his incurable patient. This is the physician's sad lot. — Aretaeus Of Cappadocia

The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest. — William Osler

Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician. — Ben Jonson

The examining physician often hesitates to make the necessary examination because it involves soiling the finger. — William James Mayo

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

As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paid. — Jean De La Bruyere

Omniscience about life and death is not within a physician's purview. A doctor should never write off a person a priori. — Jerome Groopman

Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician. — Matthew Prior

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes. — Sophocles