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

“One way to measure a particular doctor's openness and attitude toward women in general is simply to ask about the doctor's opinion of midwifery.”

Way Asks Women Attitude Opinion Particular Doctors Asking Medicine One Way Openness Physicians Childbirth Midwifery

Book:Born in the USA: How a Broken Maternity System Must Be Fixed to Put Women and Children First

Source: Born in the USA: How a Broken Maternity System Must Be Fixed to Put Women and Children First

“It would be a mistake, though, to consider care by family doctors or midwives inferior to that offered by obstetricians simply on the grounds that obstetricians need not refer care to a family physician or midwife if no complications develop during a course of labor.”

Ifs Needs Would Be Care Courses Mistake Labor Doctors Inferiors Physicians Complication Midwife Obstetricians

Author:Ina May Gaskin

“The sun - my almighty physician.”

Sun Almighty Physicians

Book:Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

“When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.”

Firsts Doe Literature Knowledge Doctors Criminals Nerves Physicians God Complex

Author:Arthur Conan Doyle

“Such is the demographic paradox of a junior physician's relationship with his patients: I worry about how to extend their lives. This anxiety inevitably shortens my own.”

My Own Worry Anxiety Patient Paradox Physicians Juniors Demographics

Book:Phoning Home: Essays

Source: Phoning Home: Essays

“Just imagine what would happen if practicing physicians, the ones who have come into contact directly with suffering humanity, had some acquaintance with Eastern systems of healing. The Spirit of the East surges through every pore as a balm for all afflictions.”

Ifs Happens Spirit Suffering Humanity Healing Imagine East Contact Physicians Affliction Eastern Acquaintance

Author:Carl Jung

“The physician treats, but nature heals.”

Treats Heal Physicians

Author:Hippocrates

“I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a doctor. The doctors I knew as a very young child must have helped to plant the desire in me, when I was as young as five or six. One homeopathic physician, Dr. Justice Gage Wright, was a great model.”

Want Children I Can Remember Young Desire Justice Five Six Models Doctors Plant Physicians Drs Young Children Homeopathy

Author:C. Everett Koop

“Postpartum depression is very, very common but a lot of people just don't recognize that they have it. A lot of physicians also don't ask (patients) about it, so it's a problem from both sides.”

People Problem Asks Sides Common Patient Physicians Both Sides Postpartum Postpartum Depression

Author:Jose Gonzalez

“There is but one power which heals—that is God. The state or condition through which the healing takes place is the confidence of the heart. By some this state is reached through pills, powders, and physicians. By others through hygiene, fasting, and prayer. By others through direct perception.”

Heart States Prayer Healing Conditions Perception Direct Heal Physicians Pills Fasting Powder Hygiene

Author:Abdu'l-Bahá

“As an atheist evolving to agnosticism, and seeking answers to whether or not belief in God is potentially rational, my life was turned upside down 35 years ago by reading C. S. Lewis's Mere Christianity.”

Life Years Book God Reading Belief Answers Christianity Years Ago Mere Atheist Seeking Rational Evolve Physicians Agnostic Theologian Upside Down Agnosticism Belief In God

Author:Francis Collins

“The cure of the part should not be attempted without treatment of the whole. No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul. Let no one persuade you to cure the head until he has first given you his soul to be cured, for this is the great error of our day, that physicians first separate the soul from the body.”

Should Firsts Made Soul Whole Body Given Errors Cures Treatment Physicians

Author:Plato

“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.”

Way Needs Interest Disease Approach Profession Lifestyle Wellness Physicians Embarrassed Need A Change

Book:Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease: The Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven, Nutrition-Based Cure

Source: Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease: The Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven, Nutrition-Based Cure

“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.”

Courses Waiting Can Do Watches Illness Existentialism Over You Physicians

Book:Letters to a Young Poet

Source: Letters to a Young Poet

“And it has been sarcastically said, that there is a wide difference between a good physician and a bad one, but a small difference between a good physician and no physician at all; by which it is meant to insinuate, that the mischievous officiousness of art does commonly more than counterbalance any benefit derivable from it.”

Doe Has Beens Art Said Differences Benefits Medicine Wide Physicians Mischievous Small Differences

Book:Elements of Medical Logick

Source: Elements of Medical Logick

“Any physician who advertises a positive cure for any disease, who issues nostrum testimonials, who sells his services to a secret remedy, or who diagnoses and treats by mail patients he has never seen, is a quack.”

Secret Issues Disease Treats Sells Medicine Patient Cures Mail Remedy Physicians Diagnosis Quacks Testimonial

Author:Samuel Hopkins Adams

“Even in populous districts, the practice of medicine is a lonely road which winds up-hill all the way and a man may easily go astray and never reach the Delectable Mountains unless he early finds those shepherd guides of whom Bunyan tells, Knowledge, Experience, Watchful, and Sincere.”

Men Way May Practice Wind Mountain Lonely Medicine Guides Hills Sincere Physicians Shepherds Practice Of Medicine Delectable Knowledge Experience Lonely Roads

Book:Osler's

Source: Osler's

“If migraine patients have a common and legitimate second complaint besides their migraines, it is that they have not been listened to by physicians. Looked at, investigated, drugged, charged, but not listened to.”

Ifs Science Common Medicine Patient Physicians Complaints Diagnosis Migraine

Book:Migraine

Source: Migraine

“It is easy for men to give advice, but difficult for one's self to follow; we have an example in physicians: for their patients they order a strict regime, for themselves, on going to bed, they do all that they have forbidden to others.”

Men Giving Self Order Easy Difficult Advice Example Bed Medicine Patient Regimes Physicians Strict Forbidden

Author:Philemon

“Medicine would be the ideal profession if it did not involve giving pain.”

Ifs Giving Would Be Pain Ideals Medicine Profession Physicians

Author:Samuel Hopkins Adams

“Not one amongst the doctors, as you'll see For his own friends desires to prescribe.”

Desire Doctors Medicine Physicians

Author:Philemon

“Printer's ink, when it spells out a doctor's promise to cure, is one of the subtlest and most dangerous of poisons.”

Dangerous Promise Doctors Medicine Cures Poison Spells Physicians Ink Printer

Book:The Great American fraud

Source: The Great American fraud

“The theory of medicine, therefore, presents what is useful in thought, but does not indicate how it is to be applied in practice-the mode of operation of these principles. The theory, when mastered, gives us a certain kind of knowledge. Thus we say, for example, there are three forms of fevers and nine constitutions. The practice of medicine is not the work which the physician carries out, but is that branch of medical knowledge which, when acquired, enables one to form an opinion upon which to base the proper plan of treatment.”

Source: The Canon of Medicine (al-Qānūn Fī'l-ṭibb)

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

Science Medicine Patient Physicians Diagnosis Cardinals Cardinal Rules

Book:Migraine

Source: Migraine

“These hormones still belong to the physiologist and to the clinical investigator as much as, if not more than, to the practicing physician. But as Professor Starling said many years ago, 'The physiology of today is the medicine of tomorrow'.”

Ifs Years Said Stills Today Tomorrow Years Ago Medicine Professors Physicians Hormones Clinicals Investigators Physiology Starlings

Author:Philip Showalter Hench

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

Knows Health Disease Medicine Educated Physicians Medical Profession Prescription Drugs

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.”

Years Health Medicine Errors Obvious Aids Physicians Wisest Scientific Truth Summoning

Author:Marcel Proust

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

Wells Science Hope Dog Humour Health Ill Physicians

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

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

Mean Truth Can Do Physicians Magician

Book:Heroic Enthusiasts

Source: Heroic Enthusiasts

“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.”

Men Wells Long Made Dies Fun Health Paid Medicine Physicians Liable

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“In addition the bill would expand an existing law "conscience clause" that protects physician training programs that refuse to provide training for abortion procedures.”

Law Protect Training Conscience Program Bills Refuse Abortion Physicians Procedures Clauses Training Programs

Author:Ken Calvert

“Men are men before they are lawyers, or physicians, or merchants, or manufacturers; and if you make them capable and sensible men, they will make themselves capable and sensible lawyers or physicians.”

Ifs Men Capable Lawyer Sensible Physicians Merchants

Book:Inaugural Addresse, Delivered to the University of St. Andrews: Feb. 1st 1867

Source: Inaugural Addresse, Delivered to the University of St. Andrews: Feb. 1st 1867

“As a physician and a U.S. senator, I have warned since the very beginning about many troubling aspects of Mr. Obama's unprecedented health-insurance mandate. Not only does he believe he can order you to buy insurance, the president also incorrectly equates health insurance coverage with medical care.”

Believe Doe Care Order President Aspect Medical Physicians Senators Coverage Unprecedented Mandates Medical Care Health Insurance Coverage

Author:John Barrasso

“By establishing a social policy that keeps physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia illegal but recognizes exceptions, we would adopt the correct moral view: the onus of proving that everything had been tried and that the motivation and rationale were convincing would rest on those who wanted to end a life.”

Ends Wanted Motivation Social Views Moral Policy Prove Suicide Exception Illegal Physicians Convincing Euthanasia Rationale Social Policy Assisted Suicide Physician Assisted Suicide

Author:Ezekiel Emanuel

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

Self Doubt Patient Physicians Self-doubt Dispassionate

Author:Siddhartha Mukherjee

“To become comfortable with uncertainty is one of the primary goals in the training of a physician.”

Goal Comfortable Training Primaries Uncertainty Physicians

Book:The Uncertain Art: Thoughts on a Life in Medicine

Source: The Uncertain Art: Thoughts on a Life in Medicine

“The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings”

Humans Human Beings Objects Capable University Lawyer Engineers Physicians Skillful

Author:John Stuart Mill

“The surgical nurses were right. Theo Buchanan was gorgeous.. and sexy as hell. But none of that should matter. She was his physician, nothing more, noting less.. His hair was sticking up and he needed a shave, but he was still sexy. There wasn't anything wrong with her noticing that.. unless, of course, he noticed her noticing.”

Should Stills Matter Courses Hell Hair Needed Sexy Nurse Physicians Gorgeous Noticing

Author:Julie Garwood

“It might be that women who have beennurses should not marry physicians. They have too much respect for physicians, are taughtto have too much respect”

Should Might Too Much Nurse Physicians

Book:The teller's tales

Source: The teller's tales

“Requiring military hospitals to perform elective abortions exposes the physicians, the nurses, the military personnel to move against their own personal convictions of life in many cases.”

Moving Cases Military Conviction Abortion Hospitals Nurse Physicians Personnel Military Personnel

Author:Rick Renzi

“This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experienced with the long, tormented agony and death of my mother might have influenced me in wanting to study medicine. It was not the case.”

Long Might Mother Cases Study Tragedy Medicine Appreciation Agony Physicians Familiarity

Author:Albert Claude

“One of the first things which a physician says to his patient is, ~Let me see your tongue.~ A spiritual advisor might often do the same.”

Firsts Might Spiritual Let Me Patient Tongue Physicians Advisors

Author:Nehemiah Adams

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

Way Sex Activity Sexuality Leisure Physicians Psychotherapy Part Time

Author:Alexander Lowen

“A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.”

Lovers Equal Physicians

Author:Hippocrates

“I want to be able to look back someday and say, "I did make a difference." Whether is was to open the minds of people to think that a woman can do a good job, or whether it's the fact that so many kids out there think that they could be like me.”

People Thinking Want Mind Looks Children Facts Kids Able Jobs Women Goal Can Do Differences Work Like Me Opening Making A Difference Someday Physicians Good Job Great Job

Author:Antonia Novello

“The world is deathly ill. It is dying. The Great Physician has already signed the death certificate. Yet, there is still a great work for Christians to do. They are to be streams of living water, channels of mercy to those who are still in the world. It is possible for them to do this because they are overcomers.”

World Stills Christian Water Dying Mercy Ill Streams Physicians Great Work Certificates

Author:Corrie Ten Boom

“Nature performs the cure, the physician takes the fee.”

Healing Cures Physicians Fees

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“Seventy per cent of all patients who come to physicians could cure themselves if they got rid of their fears and worries.”

Ifs Worry Patient Cures Cents Physicians Seventies

Book:How to stop worrying & start living

Source: How to stop worrying & start living

“An osteopath is only a human engineer, who should understand all the laws governing his engine and thereby master disease.”

Should Humans Law Healing Masters Disease Medicine Engines Engineering Engineers Physicians Governing Surgeons Alternative Medicine

Book:Sage Sayings of Still: Selected from the Writings of Dr. A.T. Still; with a Historical Sketch of Osteopathy and an Appreciation of Dr. Still

Source: Sage Sayings of Still: Selected from the Writings of Dr. A.T. Still; with a Historical Sketch of Osteopathy and an Appreciation of Dr. Still

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