Best health & physicians Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Portable Nietzsche

“The healthy know not of their health, but only the sick: this is the physician's aphorism, and applicable in a far wider sense than he gives it.”

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Book:Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished

Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished

“I am dying with the help of too many physicians.”

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Author:Alexander the Great

“Avoid the necessity of a physician, if you can, by careful attention to your diet. Eat what best agrees with your system, and resolutely abstain from what hurts you, however well you may like it. A few days' abstinence, and cold water for a beverage, has driven off many an approaching disease.”

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Author:Lydia M. Child

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

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Book:The Poetical Works of Dr. John Donne: With a Memoir

Source: The Poetical Works of Dr. John Donne: With a Memoir

“We would love to see walking groups more widely recommended by physicians, health trainers and nurses.”

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Author:Sarah Hanson-Young

“The time will come when the work of the physician will not be to treat and attempt to heal the body, but to heal the mind, which in turn will heal the body. The true physician will be a teacher; his or her work will be to keep people well, instead of trying to heal them after sickness.”

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Author:Ralph Waldo Trine

“One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.”

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Author:William Osler

“I have argued for years that we do not have a health care system in America. We have a disease-management system - one that depends on ruinously expensive drugs and surgeries that treat health conditions after they manifest rather than giving our citizens simple diet, lifestyle and therapeutic tools to keep them healthy.”

“Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship to restrict the art of healing to one class of Men and deny equal privileges to others; the Constitution of the Republic should make a Special privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedom.”

“The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it”

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Book:Moses Maimonides' Treatise on Asthma

Source: Moses Maimonides' Treatise on Asthma

“He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.”

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Author:Thomas Fuller

“He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of most medicines.”

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Author:Benjamin Franklin

“In the wake of the Supreme Court of Canada decision (Chaoulli-Zeliotis), the Canadian Medicare system is about to be redesigned. Physicians must not just sit at the table, but must position themselves at the head, where they can lead and direct the nature of that design.”

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Author:Brian Day

“When it comes to physicians there is a common thread that is a major barrier to solving our concerns. We are divided. The result is a divide and conquer scenario, in which we negotiate as adversaries, first with government and then with one another about our relative worth, while the "conqueror" observes and continues to rule.”

“Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.”

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Author:Aeschylus

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

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Author:Galen

“In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.”

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Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

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Author:Voltaire

“Any man who is intelligent must, on considering that health is of the utmost value to human beings, have the personal understanding necessary to help himself in diseases, and be able to understand and to judge what physicians say and what they administer to his body, being versed in each of these matters to a degree reasonable for a layman.”

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Book:Hippocrates

Source: Hippocrates

“One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself. He heals himself, by his own power, exactly as he walks by means of his own power, or eats, or thinks, breathes or sleeps.”

“I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it is medically conservative to cut people open and put them on cholesterol lowering drugs for the rest of their lives.”

“The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated.”

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Author:Plato

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

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Author:Hippocrates

“The means by which I preserve my own health are, temperance, early rising, and spunging the body every morning with cold water, a practice I have pursued for thirty years ; and though I go from this heated theatre into the squares of the Hospital, in the severest winter nights, with merely silk stockings on my legs, yet I scarcely ever have a cold.”

Source: The Lectures of Sir Astley Cooper: On the Principles and Practice of Surgery

“I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.”

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Book:The works of John Donne: Dean of Saint Paul's, 1621-1631

Source: The works of John Donne: Dean of Saint Paul's, 1621-1631

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

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Author:Richard Clarke Cabot

“In summoning even the wisest of physicians to our aid, it is probably that he is relying upon a scientific "truth", the error of which will become obvious in just a few years' time.”

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Author:Marcel Proust

“PHYSICIAN, n. One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.”

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Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“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.”

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Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.”

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Author:Vernon Howard

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

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Author:Susan Sontag

“The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole... For the part can never be well unless the whole is well.”

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Author:Plato

“At some time in the future scientists, physicians, mediums and healers will have to work together to perfect the science of the whole.”

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Author:Betty Shine

“Before asserting a prognosis on any patient, always be objective and never subjective. For telling a man that he will win the treasure of life, but then later discovering that he will lose, will harm him more than by telling him that he may lose, but then he wins.”

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Book:Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

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