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“Although physicians, as part of their training, are taught that the dosage of a drug that is prescribed for the patient must be very carefully determined and controlled, they seem to have difficulty in remembering that the same principle applies to the vitamins.”

Seems Remember Principles Taught Drug Training Difficulty Patient Determined Controlled Physicians Vitamins Dosage

Book:How to Live Longer and Feel Better

Source: How to Live Longer and Feel Better

“How many physicians, scientists, teachers, pastors, missionaries, statesmen, musicians, businessmen, and notable contributors to society have been murdered in the womb?”

Has Beens Teacher Musician Scientist Physicians Businessman Pastor Womb Notable Statesmen Contributors

Author:Chuck Baldwin

“The evidence is overwhelming that marijuana can relieve certain types of pain, nausea, vomiting and other symptoms caused by such illnesses as multiple sclerosis, cancer and AIDS - or by the harsh drugs sometimes used to treat them. And it can do so with remarkable safety. Indeed, marijuana is less toxic than many of the drugs that physicians prescribe every day.”

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

Knows Patient Average Seconds Healthcare Physicians

Author:Abraham Verghese

“Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be. I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.”

Wells Kind Wanted School Roles Models Medical Educated Role Models Looking Back Physicians Uncles Medical School Medical Education

Author:Abraham Verghese

“As a physician I have sympathy for patients suffering from pain and other medical conditions. Although I understand many believe marijuana is the most effective drug in combating their medical ailments, I would caution against this assumption due to the lack of consistent, repeatable scientific data available to prove marijuana's benefits. Based on current evidence, I believe that marijuana is a dangerous drug and that there are less dangerous medicines offering the same relief from pain and other medical symptoms.”

“Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if he ignores these two great truths of population zoology: (1) no two individuals are alike, and (2) both environment and genetic endowment make a contribution to nearly every trait.”

Ifs Humans Two Individual Mistake Environment Politician Bounds Population Graves Contribution Traits Physicians Educator Endowment Clergymen Zoology

Author:Ernst Mayr

“The freedom of patient speech is necessary if the doctor is to get clues about the medical enigma before him. If the patient is inhibited, or cut off prematurely, or constrained into one path of discussion, then the doctor may not be told something vital. Observers have noted that, on average, physicians interrupt patients within eighteen seconds of when they begin telling their story.”

Ifs May Stories Path Cutting Speech Doctors Patient Average Medical Discussion Seconds Physicians Clue Observers Eighteen Enigma Get A Clue

Book:How Doctors Think

Source: How Doctors Think

“On average, physicians interrupt patients within eighteen seconds of when they begin telling their story.”

Stories Patient Average Seconds Physicians Eighteen

Book:How Doctors Think

Source: How Doctors Think

“The best physician is also a philosopher.”

Philosopher Physicians

Book:On the natural faculties

Source: On the natural faculties

“Nowhere is wisdom more necessary than in the guidance of charitable impulses. Meaning well is only half our duty; Thinking right is the other, and equally important, half.”

Thinking Wells Important Wisdom Half Duty Charity Intellect Impulse Guidance Physicians Good Intentions Charitable Abolitionist Thinking Right Meaning Well

Author:Samuel Gridley Howe

“The physicians belief in the treatment and the patients faith in the physician exert a mutually reinforcing effect; the result is a powerful remedy that is almost guaranteed to produce an improvement and sometimes a cure”

Sometimes Belief Results Powerful Effects Produce Patient Improvement Cures Treatment Remedy Physicians

Author:Petr Skrabanek

“Most physicians regard abortion as a stigmatized operation done by people who are otherwise incompetent and can't do anything else.”

People Done Regard Operations Abortion Physicians Incompetent

Author:Warren Hern

“I became a physician in order to help save lives. I am at once a physician, a citizen, and a woman, and I am not willing to stand aside and allow the concept of expendable human lives to turn this great land of ours into just another exclusive reservation where only the perfect, the privileged, and the planned have the right to live.”

Humans Helping Order Turns Perfect Land Willing Citizens Concepts Human Life Physicians Privileged Exclusive Reservations Save A Life Expendables

Author:Mildred Fay Jefferson

“Given one has before oneself a strong, healthy, youth rich in spirited blood and a powerless, weak, cachectic old man scarcely capable of breathing. If now the physician wishes to practise the rejuvenating art on the latter, he should make silver tubes which fit into each other: open then the artery of the healthy person and introduce one of the tubes into it and fasten it into the artery; thereupon he opens also the artery of the ill person.”

“Death a friend that alone can bring the peace his treasures cannot purchase, and remove the pain his physicians cannot cure.”

Pain Death Treasure Cures Remove Physicians Happy Death

Author:Mortimer Collins

“Let the young know they will never find a more interesting, more instructive book than the patient himself.”

Knows Book Young Science Interesting Patient Physicians

Author:Giorgio Baglivi

“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.”

Men Hands Values Ought Commit Ignorant Physicians

Author:Nicholas Culpeper

“The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman.”

Quiet Diets Physicians Drs Introvert

Author:Daniel D. Palmer

“A modern hospital is like Grand Central Station—all noise and hubbub, and is filled with smoking physicians, nurses, orderlies, patients and visitors. Soft drinks are sold on each floor and everybody guzzles these popular poisons. The stench of chemicals offends the nose, while tranquillizers substitute for quietness.”

Modern Drink Filled Patient Noise Noses Poison Smoking Stations Hospitals Substitutes Chemicals Nurse Physicians Visitors Quietness Soft Drinks

Author:Herbert M. Shelton

“One quarter of Medicare beneficiaries have five or more chronic conditions, sees an average of 13 physicians each year, and fills 50 prescriptions per year.”

Years Five Conditions Average Quarters Physicians Prescriptions Medicare Beneficiaries

Author:Clayton Christensen

“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.”

Doctors Patient Physicians

Author:Albert Schweitzer

“The most devastating indictment of the president's proposal is that it threatens to destroy virtually everything about American health care that's worth preserving. Under the plan's layers of regulation and oversight, even seeing a doctor whenever you like will be no easy matter: access to physicians will be carefully regulated by gatekeepers; referrals to specialists will be strongly discouraged; second opinions will be almost unheard of; and the availability of new drugs will be limited.”

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

Grows Trouble Drug Disease Difficulty Anger Angry Misfortunes Physicians Coping

Author:Sophocles

“When there are kids involved, there's no such thing as divorce.”

Children Kids Family Marriage Involved Divorce Physicians Involvement Happy Marriage United Family

Author:Carl Whitaker

“I believe that fortitude is key. More than anything, be consistent. Go at it. Go at it. Go at it. When you succeed, don’t forget the responsibility of making somebody else succeed with you.”

Believe Success I Believe Forget Responsibility Keys Succeed Perseverance Guts Consistent Endurance Physicians Consistency Key To Success Fortitude

Author:Antonia Novello

“A careful physician . . . before he attempts to administer a remedy to his patient, must investigate not only the malady of the man he wishes to cure, but also his habits when in health, and his physical constitution.”

Men Wish He Man Habit Healthy Constitution Patient Careful Cures Retirement Remedy Physicians Malady

Book:Cicero: De oratore ...

Source: Cicero: De oratore ...

“Whilst my physicians by their love are grown Cosmographers, and I their map, who lie Flat on this bed.”

Love Lying Bed Maps Flats Physicians

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

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

“A physician who treated mental cases says that he based his diagnosis on the way his patients moved: "The body never lies" was his maxim.”

Way Body Lying Cases Moved Dancing Dance Patient Treated Physicians Maxims Diagnosis Never Lie

Author:Gerald Jonas

“I tell patients that tranquilizers alone never cure anyone. They merely reduce the intensity of the symptoms and make life slightly more endurable. They create a better behaved, chronic dependent person. Only with orthomolecular treatment can the majority of schizophrenic patients hope to become well and normally independent.”

Life Wells Persons Hope Creating Independent Majority Mental Health Patient Cures Dependent Treatment Intensity Physicians Symptoms Schizophrenia Schizophrenic

Book:Orthomolecular Medicine for Everyone: Megavitamin Therapeutics for Families and Physicians

Source: Orthomolecular Medicine for Everyone: Megavitamin Therapeutics for Families and Physicians

“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.”

Years Next Five Ten Essentials Disease Tools Medicine Cease Forty Mainstream Physicians Innovative Specialty

Author:Abram Hoffer

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

Humans Soul Courage Physicians Human Soul Implants

Author:Karl Ludwig von Knebel

“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

“Non-Christians seem to think that the Incarnation implies some particular merit or excellence in humanity. But of course it implies just the reverse: a particular demerit and depravity. No creature that deserved Redemption would need to be redeemed. They that are whole need not the physician. Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.”

Source: The World's Last Night: And Other Essays

“Many modern (so-called) Reformers are just as dangerous as the physician who makes a wrong diagnosis of a disease. They see the trouble from without and prescribe external remedies, while the cause of the trouble is within and needs internal treatment.”

Needs Causes Trouble Modern Dangerous Disease Internals Treatment Remedy Physicians Diagnosis Reformers

Author:William J. H. Boetcker

“If I had to choose between putting a saloon or a liberal church on a corner, I'd choose the saloon every time. People who drink up the pay check in the saloon are less likely to become Pharisees, thinking that they don't need the Great Physician, than those who weekly swill the soporific doctrine of man's goodness.”

People Ifs Thinking Men Needs Church Pay Drink Goodness Corners Alcohol Checks Doctrine Physicians Saloons Pharisees

Author:Jay Adams

“It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine.”

“Art stands in opposition to all the bad things that happen in life, which is where physicians stand. That's what doctors do-affirm life. And that's what artists do.”

Art Happens Artist Doctors Opposition Bad Things Physicians

Author:Eric Avery

“No matter whether you are a physician, a teacher, or a clergyman, if you can give increase of life to others and make them sensible of that fact, they will be attracted to you, and you will get rich.”

Ifs Giving Matter Facts Rich Teacher Increase Sensible Physicians Get Rich Clergymen

Book:The Science of Wallace D. Wattles: The Science of Being Well, The Science of Getting Rich & The Science of Being Great – Complete Trilogy: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of How to Promote Yourself, New Science of Living and Healing, Hellfire Harrison, A New Christ, How to Get What You Want and Jesus The Man and His Work

Source: The Science of Wallace D. Wattles: The Science of Being Well, The Science of Getting Rich & The Science of Being Great – Complete Trilogy: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of How to Promote Yourself, New Science of Living and Healing, Hellfire Harrison, A New Christ, How to Get What You Want and Jesus The Man and His Work

“The greatest mistake physicians make is that they attempt to cure the body without attempting to cure the mind, yet the mind and the body are one and should not be treated separately!”

Should Mind Body Mistake Treated Cures Physicians Attempting

Author:Plato

“Making systems work is the great task of my generation of physicians and scientists. But I would go further and say that making systems work - whether in healthcare, education, climate change, making a pathway out of poverty - is the great task of our generation as a whole.”

Whole Inspiration Motivation Poverty Generations Tasks Scientist Climate Climate Change Healthcare Physicians Pathways My Generation Our Generation

Author:Atul Gawande

“We're losing a ritual. We're losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.”

Believe Heart Inspiration Motivation I Believe Losing Patient Ritual Healthcare Physicians Transcendent

Author:Abraham Verghese

“Irregular contact with doctors means many men fail to receive any preventive care for potentially life-threatening conditions. In addition, when men do seek care, embarrassment can often prevent them from openly discussing health concerns with their physicians.”

Men Mean Care Failing Conditions Concern Doctors Contact Healthcare Physicians Threatening Embarrassment Discussing Preventive Care

Author:Michael Dean Crapo

“Rogue internet pharmacies continue to pose a serious threat to the health and safety of Americans. Simply put, a few unethical physicians and pharmacists have become drug suppliers to a nation.”

Nations Serious Internet Drug Safety Threat Healthcare Physicians Rogues Unethical Suppliers Pharmacy Health And Safety Pharmacist

Author:Dianne Feinstein

“Fundamentalists who say they are not going to pay any attention to the charts are like a doctor who says he's not going to take a patient's temperature.”

Pay Attention Doctors Patient Analysis Physicians Trading Temperature Doctor Who Fundamentalist

Author:Bruce Kovner

“A person who doesn't breathe deeply reduces the life of his body. If he doesn't move freely, he restricts the life of his body. If he doesn't feel fully, he narrows the life of his body. And if his self-expression is constricted, he limits the life of his body.”

Ifs Life Feels Persons Self Feelings Body Moving Freedom Expression Limits Breathe Physicians Restriction Reducing Self Expression Psychotherapy

Book:Bioenergetics

Source: Bioenergetics

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

Used Standing Physicians Wrongdoing Wronged

Author:Josiah Bartlett

“The law discovers the disease, and the gospel the physician.”

Law Disease Physicians

Book:The Whole Works of the Late Reverend and Learned Mr. Thomas Boston, Minister of the Gospel at Etterick

Source: The Whole Works of the Late Reverend and Learned Mr. Thomas Boston, Minister of the Gospel at Etterick

“Basketball really had its origin in Indiana, which remains the center of the sport.”

Funny Sports Basketball Remains Coaches Physicians Indiana Inspirational Basketball

Author:James Naismith

“Most psychologists treat the mind as disembodied, a phenomenon with little or no connection to the physical body. Conversely, physicians treat the body with no regard to the mind or the emotions. But the body and mind are not separate, and we cannot treat one without the other.”

Mind Littles Philosophy Body Emotion Connections Treats Regard Medicine Senses Phenomenon Physicians Mind And Body Psychologist Physical Body Soma

Author:Candace Pert