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“If managing were simple, why do the majority of businesses fail? If physicians had the same success rate as executives, the medical schools would have been shuttered long ago.”

Ifs Long Has Beens School Simple Failing Management Majority Rate Medical Executives Long Ago Physicians Medical School

Author:Michael Martin Hammer

“The Lord, before His Incarnation, let mankind experience all the bitterness of sin, all their powerlessness to eradicate it; and when all longed for a Deliverer, then He appeared, the most wise, all-powerful Physician and Helper. When men hungered and thirsted after righteousness, as it grew weaker, then the everlasting righteousness came.”

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Author:John of Kronstadt

“Do you conceive of your Lord as less because? He shows that humiliation is the best road to exaltation (cf. Mt. 23:12); because He humbles Himself for the sake of the soul that is bent down to the ground, that He may even exalt within Himself that which is bent double under a weight of sin?... If so, you must blame the physician for stooping over suffering and putting up with evil smells in order to give health to the sick?”

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Author:Gregory of Nazianzus

“If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man being his own physician, for Nature is like that - agent and patient at once.”

Ifs Men Art Purpose Nature Cases Patient Agents Inherent Physicians Illustration

Book:Aristotle, the Physics

Source: Aristotle, the Physics

“Someone asked the Swiss physician & author Paul Tournier how he helped his patients get rid of their fears. He replied, 'I don't. Everything that's worthwhile in life is scary. Choosing a school, choosing a career, getting married, having kids--all those things are scary. If it is not fearful, it is not worthwhile.'”

Ifs Kids School Life Is Careers Married Patient Scary Fearful Worthwhile Physicians Getting Married Swiss Having Kids

Book:Where Is God When it Hurts/What's So Amazing About Grace?

Source: Where Is God When it Hurts/What's So Amazing About Grace?

“People tend to think of breakthroughs in medicine as a new drug, a laser, or a high-tech surgical procedure. They often have a hard time believing that the simple choices that we make in our lifestyle. What we eat, how we respond to stress, whether or not we smoke cigarettes, how much exercise we get, and the quality of our relationships and support can be as powerful as drugs and surgery. And they often are.”

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

Community Greater Hospitals Physicians Clinic

Author:Mark Hyman, M.D.

“Some people think plant-based diet, whole foods diet is extreme. Half a million people a year will have their chests opened up and a vein taken from their leg and sewn onto their coronary artery. Some people would call that extreme.”

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Author:Caldwell Esselstyn

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

Thinking Disease Physicians Labeling

Author:Immanuel Kant

“The most important thing to remember about food labels is that you should avoid foods that have labels.”

Should Important Remember Food Important Things Labels Diets Physicians Avoiding Healthy Eating

Author:Joel Fuhrman

“The role of a clown and a physician are the same - it's to elevate the possible and to relieve suffering.”

Suffering Roles Physicians Clown

Author:Patch Adams

“A physician who fails to enter the body of a patient with the lamp of knowledge and understanding can never treat diseases. He should first study all the factors, including environment, which influence a patient's disease, and then prescribe treatment. It is more important to prevent the occurrence of disease than to seek a cure.”

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Author:Charaka

“Reasoning based on cost has been strenuously resisted; it violated the Hippocratic Oath, was associated with rationing, and derided as putting a price on life... Indeed, many physicians were willing to lie to get patients what they needed from insurance companies that were trying to hold down costs.”

Trying Has Beens Lying Company Willing Needed Cost Patient Reasoning Physicians Oath Insurance Companies

Author:Ezekiel Emanuel

“A doctor is nothing more than consolation for the spirit.”

Spirit Doctors Physicians Consolation

Author:Petronius

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

Poor Doctors Eggs Physicians

Author:Fuller Albright

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

Science Disease Patient Physicians Pulse Purses Diagnosis Forecasts

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“Doctors can do almost anything nowadays, can't they, unless they kill you while they're trying to cure you.”

Trying Science Death Can Do Doctors Cures Physicians

Book:Endless night

Source: Endless night

“For many doctors the achievement of a published article is a tedious duty to be surmounted as a necessary hurdle in a medical career.”

Science Careers Duty Achievement Doctors Medical Articles Physicians Publication Tedious Hurdle Medical Care

Author:Richard Asher

“Given one well-trained physician of the highest type and he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.”

People Wells Science Given Type Thousand Ten Highest Treatment Physicians Specialists

Book:In the time of Henry Jacob Bigelow

Source: In the time of Henry Jacob Bigelow

“Imprisoned quacks are always replaced by new ones.”

Replaced Physicians Quacks

Author:Rudolf Virchow

“Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession, as well as outside my profession in my intercourse with men, if it be what should not be published abroad, I will never divulge, holding such things to be holy secrets.”

Ifs Men Should Wells Helping Body Courses House Secret Holy Sick Harm Profession Physicians Intercourse Divulge

Author:Hippocrates

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

Use Science Patient Physicians Persuasion Compulsion

Author:Aristotle

“Laplace considers astronomy a science of observation, because we can only observe the movements of the planets; we cannot reach them, indeed, to alter their course and to experiment with them. "On earth," said Laplace, "we make phenomena vary by experiments; in the sky, we carefully define all the phenomena presented to us by celestial motion." Certain physicians call medicine a science of observations, because they wrongly think that experimentation is inapplicable to it.”

Source: An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine

“Look around you: there is not a doctor who desires the health of his friends, not a soldier who desires peace for his country.”

Looks Country Desire Doctors Soldier Physicians Doctor Who

Author:Philemon

“Only the doctor and the judge have the right to inflict the death penalty without receiving the same.”

Science Death Judging Doctors Receiving Physicians Penalties Death Penalty

Author:Philemon

“Only those who regard healing as the ultimate goal of their efforts can, therefore, be designated as physicians.”

Goal Effort Healing Ultimate Regard Physicians Ultimate Goal

Book:Disease, Life, and Man: Selected Essays

Source: Disease, Life, and Man: Selected Essays

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

Stills Physicians

Author:Otto von Bismarck

“The examining physician often hesitates to make the necessary examination because it involves soiling the finger.”

Fingers Physicians Examination Examining

Author:William James Mayo

“The goal of scientific physicians in their own science ... is to reduce the indeterminate. Statistics therefore apply only to cases in which the cause of the facts observed is still indeterminate.”

Stills Facts Science Causes Goal Cases Observation Statistics Physicians

Book:An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine

Source: An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine

“The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don't.”

Two Science Cases Type Medicine Convinced Physicians Diagnosis Practise Trousers

Author:Alan Bennett

“The old fashioned family physician and general practitioner ... was a splendid figure and useful person in his day; but he was badly trained, he was often ignorant, he made many mistakes, for one cannot by force of character and geniality of person make a diagnosis of appendicitis, or recognize streptococcus infection.”

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Author:Charles Loomis Dana

“The physician himself, if sick, actually calls in another physician, knowing that he cannot reason correctly if required to judge his own condition while suffering.”

Ifs Reason Suffering Knowing Conditions Judging Disease Sick Physicians

Author:Aristotle

“Thus we work not in the light of public opinion but in the secrecy of the chamber; and perhaps the best of us are apt at times to forget the delicacies and sincerities which under these conditions are essential to harmony and honour.”

Light Forget Opinion Conditions Essentials Harmony Honour Sincerity Physicians Public Opinion Chamber Secrecy Delicacy

Author:Clifford Allbutt

“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.”

Men Science Patient Aids Physicians Mourn

Author:Aretaeus of Cappadocia

“Who ever saw a doctor use the prescription of his colleague without cutting out or adding something?”

Use Saws Cutting Doctors Physicians Colleagues Prescriptions

Book:Essays

Source: Essays

“Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure.”

Natural Study Ought Advantage Labor Medicine Following Acquire Leisure Possessed Physicians Disposition Competent Tuition

Book:The Law

Source: The Law

“With the exception of lawyers, there is no profession which, considers itself above the law so widely as the medical profession.”

Law Profession Lawyer Medical Exception Physicians Medical Profession Above The Law

Author:Samuel Hopkins Adams

“But what physician has not had patients who don't make any sense at all? To tell the truth, they're our stock-in-trade. We talk and write about the ones we can make sense of.”

Writing Trade Patient Medical Make Sense Telling The Truth Physicians

Book:The Thanatos Syndrome

Source: The Thanatos Syndrome

“Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.”

Conditions Goodness Conscious Patient Medical Contentment Physicians

Book:Ancient Medicine, Airs, Waters, Places, Epidemics 1 and 3, the Oath, Precepts, Nutriment

Source: Ancient Medicine, Airs, Waters, Places, Epidemics 1 and 3, the Oath, Precepts, Nutriment

“Men have cried out to me in sincere and despairing appeal: 'Doctor, I cannot go on like this! I have everything to live for! I must stop, but I cannot! You must help me!'...One feels that something more than human power is needed to produce the essential psychic change. Though the aggregate of recoveries resulting from psychiatric effort is considerable, we physicians must admit we have made little impression upon the problem as a whole. Many types do not respond to the ordinary psychological approach.”

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

Causes Disease Discovery Cures Physicians

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“By examining the tongue of the patient, physicians find out the diseases of the body, and philosophers the diseases of the mind.”

Mind Body Attitude Disease Patient Philosopher Tongue Physicians Examining

Author:Justin Martyr

“The cure of many diseases remains unknown to the physicians of Hellos (Greece) because they do not study the whole person.”

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Author:Socrates

“..Dr. Andrew C. Ivy, (is) the champion of the scientific doctrine of freedom of research, which has suffered in recent years through the falsity of certain politico-physician leaders of the AMA, who faked reports, suppressed honest information, brutally slugged the opposition, both physically and through pressures, used to prevent the truth about Krebiozen reaching the American people.”

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Author:Roland V. Libonati

“...Only physicians are likely to be regarded as competent to judge the qualifications of potential physicians, so licensing boards in the various states...are typically composed..of physicians,...members of the AMA. The boards, or the state legislatures...give the AMA the power to influence the number of persons admitted to practice (by) lengthy training,...(and) the list of 'approved' schools and hospitals (which) is generally identical with the list issued by the Council on Medical Education and Hospitals of the AMA.”

“In the early 1700's, two physicians...learned about pinkroot's efficacy from the Indians. The word soon spread to the general public, who praised this worm treatment, particularly against roundworms, for the next 200 years. Pinkroot fell into disuse in the early 1900's, simply because greedy herb dealers adulterated or even substituted shipments of true pinkroot with quantities of other plants.”

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Author:Michael Savage

“When a physician is called to a patient, he should decide on the diagnosis, then the prognosis, and then the treatment. ... Physicians must know the evolution of the disease, its duration and gravity in order to predict its course and outcome. Here statistics intervene to guide physicians, by teaching them the proportion of mortal cases, and if observation has also shown that the successful and unsuccessful cases can be recognized by certain signs, then the prognosis is more certain.”

Source: An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine

“The doctors of antiquity have affirmed that love is a passion that resembles a melancholy disease. The physician Rasis prescribed, therefore, in order to recover, coitus, fasting, drunkenness, and walking.”

Order Passion Walks Love Is Journey Walking Disease Doctors Wander Melancholy Hiking Physicians Trekking Fasting Drunkenness Strolling Antiquity Sauntering

Author:Marsilio Ficino

“The book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves.”

Book Walks Journey Walking Wander Hiking Physicians Trekking Strolling Sauntering

Author:Paracelsus

“It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; for all chastisement is a kind of medicine.”

Men Kind Kindness Sick Medicine Punishment Wicked Physicians Chastisement Wicked Man Sick Man

Book:Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study