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

Source: Enchiridion

“Preachers say, "Do as I say, not as I do." But if a physician had the same disease upon him that I have, and he should bid me do one thing and he do quite another, could I believe him?”

Ifs Should Believe I Believe One Thing Disease Preacher Preaching Physicians

Book:Table talk: being the discourses of John Selden, esq

Source: Table talk: being the discourses of John Selden, esq

“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.”

Soul Body School Masters Higher Treatment Physicians

Book:The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

Source: The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

“You are taken sick; you send for a physician; he comes in, stays ten minutes, prescribes for you a healing medicine, and charges you three or four dollars. You call this 'extortionate' - forgetting the medical books he must have waded through, the revolting dissections he must have witnessed and participated in, and the medical lectures he must have digested, to have enabled him to pronounce on your case so summarily and satisfactorily.”

Book Three Forget Healing Cases Taken Four Minutes Ten Doctors Sick Dollars Medicine Medical Physicians Lectures Dissection

Book:FRESH LEAVES

Source: FRESH LEAVES

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

Helping Funny Death Dying Health Physicians

Author:Alexander the Great

“Man without religion is a diseased creature, who would persuade himself he is well and needs not a physician; but woman without religion is raging and monstrous.”

Men Needs Wells Religion Creatures Rage Physicians Monstrous Diseased

Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater

“it must depend as much upon the patient's willingness to be cured, as upon the physician's skill in curing. There is neither force not magic in psychiatry.”

Force Magic Depends Skills Patient Willingness Physicians Psychiatry

Book:Survival

Source: Survival

“Physicians are the cobblers, rather the botchers, of men's bodies; as the one patches our tattered clothes, so the other solders our diseased flesh.”

Men Body Clothes Flesh Physicians Patches Diseased Cobblers

Book:The Lover's Melancholy

Source: The Lover's Melancholy

“We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.”

Made Disease Physicians

Author:Benjamin Rush

“Friendship hath the skill and observation of the best physician, the diligence and vigilance of the best nurse, and the tenderness and patience of the best mother.”

Mother Friendship Skills Observation Nurse Tenderness Physicians Diligence Vigilance Best Mother

Author:Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

“Well into the 19th century there were pronouncements from just about every branch of science and medicine that reading, writing, and thinking were dangerous for women. Articles in the Lancet declared that women's brains would burst and their uteruses atrophy if they engaged in any form of rigorous thinking. The famous physician J.D. Kellogg insisted that novel reading was the greatest cause of uterine disease among young women and urged parents to protect their daughters from the dreaded consequences of print.”

“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.”

Ifs Wells May Water Hurt Attention Health Cold Disease Agree Careful Driven Diets Physicians Abstinence Beverages Cold Water

Author:Lydia M. Child

“In the actual condition of medical science, the physician mostly plays the part of simple spectator of the sad episodes which his profession furnishes him.”

Play Simple Conditions Profession Medical Episodes Physicians Spectators Medical Science

Author:Francois Magendie

“It has been well observed that the tongue discovers the state of the mind no less than that of the body; but in either case, before the philosopher or the physician can judge, the patient must open his mouth.”

Mind Wells Has Beens States Body Talking Cases Judging Mouths Patient Philosopher Tongue Physicians

Book:Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

“I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician.”

Scientist Medical Practicals Physicians

Author:Robert Jarvik

“The doctor is effective only when he himself is affected. Only the wounded physician heals.”

Doctors Heal Affected Physicians Wounded Effectiveness Woundedness Doctoring

Book:Memories, dreams, reflections

Source: Memories, dreams, reflections

“I early conceived a liking for, and sought every opportunity to relieve the sufferings of others.”

Suffering Opportunity African American Treatment Physicians Alleviate Suffering Of Others

Author:Rebecca Lee Crumpler

“The words ending in Ique do mocke the Physician (as Hectique, Paralitique, Apoplectique, Lethargique).”

Physicians

Book:The Works of George Herbert: In Prose and Verse

Source: The Works of George Herbert: In Prose and Verse

“I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.”

Thinking Humans Heart Interest Human Beings Keys Fellows Medicine Patient Curiosity Endeavor Physicians Limitless Good Science

Author:Abraham Verghese

“Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion. You must take people as they come. Remember, too that though you will generally know more about the condition than the patient, it is the patient who has the condition and this if nothing else bestows on him or her a kind of wisdom. You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.”

People Ifs Knows Kind Doe Remember Conditions Masters Patient Superiors Ministers Servant Physicians Policemen Remember You Remembers You

Book:Smut: Two Unseemly Stories

Source: Smut: Two Unseemly Stories

“Aging nations have arteries clogged with obsolete laws, slowing blood flow and preventing oxygen from reaching all parts of the body politic. Physicians call this arteriosclerosis; historians see decline of empire.”

Body Law Nations Blood Flow Aging Reaching Empires Historian Decline Physicians Oxygen Obsolete Preventing Slowing Arteries Parts Of The Body Blood Flow

Author:Jim Cooper

“This is where the strength of the physician lies, be he a quack, a homeopath or an allopath. He supplies the perennial demand for comfort, the craving for sympathy that every human sufferer feels.”

Feels Humans Lying Comfort Demand Physicians Craving Supplies Sufferers Quacks

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“... it is seldom a medical man has true religious views--there is too much pride of intellect.”

Men Religion Religious Views Too Much Pride Intellect Medical Physicians Religious Views Too Much Pride

Author:George Eliot

“When two people become entangled, one person will conform to the energy of the other person. When one of them is a healer whose cells are vibrating at a higher level, the client's cells become entangled, and their energy is lifted. That's why that old saying, "physician heal thyself," is so important, even though most don't understand it: If the physician's energy is going to influence or, in scientific terms, "entrain" the patient's, the doctor's must be higher.”

People Ifs Persons Two Important Energy Term Levels Influence Higher Doctors Patient Heal Cells Clients Physicians Conform Thyself Healer Higher Level Old Saying

Author:Bruce H. Lipton

“Physicians can't really dictate our protocols. They can inform us to the extent that they can as to what would best serve us, because we're not medical geniuses, no human being is, but intrinsically there is inside of each one of us, the knowing of what's going on.”

Humans Human Beings Knowing Genius Medical Physicians Protocol

Author:Maya Tiwari

“Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.”

Knows Art Stills Enough Physicians Amusement

Author:Petrarch

“The physician...is the flower (such as it is) of our civilization.”

Flower Civilization Physicians

Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

“It is incident to physicians, I am afraid, beyond all other men, to mistake subsequence for consequence.”

Men Mistake Consequence Physicians Incidents

Author:Samuel Johnson

“God bless the physician who warms the speculum or holds your hand and looks into your eyes. Perhaps one subtext of the health caredebate is a yen to be treated like a whole person, not just an eye, an ear, a nose or a throat. A yen to be human again, on the part of patient and doctor alike.”

Humans Looks Persons Whole Hands Eye Doctors Ears Medicine Patient Treated Health Care Noses Bless Throat Physicians God Bless Whole Person Subtext

Author:Anna Quindlen

“I had rather follow you to your grave than see you owe your life to any but a regular-bred physician.”

Graves Physicians

Author:Richard Brinsley Sheridan

“Every physician must be rich in knowledge, and not only of that which is written in books; his patients should be his book, they will never mislead him.”

Should Book Rich Written Patient Physicians Mislead

Book:Selected Writings

Source: Selected Writings

“The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.”

Should Looks Care Common Conditions Healthy Dignity Medicine Crowds Take Care Excellent Physicians

Author:Hippocrates

“I felt more than ever the necessity of my mission. But I went home out of spirits, I hardly know why. I must work by myself all life long.”

Knows Long Home Spirit Felt Loneliness Missions Physicians Long Life

Book:Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women: Autobiographical Sketches

Source: Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women: Autobiographical Sketches

“When a doctor refuses money, even the most ethical ones, you usually start driving a good bargain with the undertaker.”

Dying Doctors Greed Refuse Driving Ethical Physicians Bargains Undertaker

Author:Sue Sanders

“There are 20,000 Muslim physicians in the United States, Americans putting their lives in the hands of Muslims every day.”

States Hands United United States Physicians

Author:Hamza Yusuf

“The consultant's first obligation is to the patient, not to his brother physician.”

Firsts Brother Patient Obligation Physicians Consultants

Author:Burton J. Hendrick

“Many young girls are ... becoming trained nurses, whose gentle ministrations in the sick-room, skilled touch, patient watchfulness and unwearied vigils, are as great factors in the care of the sick, as are the professional physicians.”

Care Young Girl Rooms Becoming Sick Patient Factors Gentle Nurse Physicians Watchfulness

Author:Lydia Hoyt Farmer

“You must be born for your physician, otherwise you are bound to perish because of your physician.”

Born Doctors Bounds Physicians

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“The most dangerous physicians are those born actors who imitate born physicians with a perfectly deceptive guile.”

Actors Born Dangerous Doctors Physicians Deceptive Guile

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Physician, heal thyself.”

Doctors Medicine Heal Physicians Thyself

Author:Luke the Evangelist

“What makes philosophy so tedious is not the profundity of philosophers, but their lack of art; they are like physicians who soughtto cure a slight hyperacidity by prescribing a carload of burned oyster-shells.”

Art Philosophy Philosophical Philosopher Cures Burned Shells Physicians Tedious Oysters Profundity Prescribing

Book:Mencken Chrestomathy

Source: Mencken Chrestomathy

“There are some chagrins of the heart which a friend ought to try to console without betraying a knowledge of their existence, as there are physical maladies which a physician ought to seek to heal without letting the sufferer know that he has discovered their extent.”

Knows Trying Heart Existence Ought Heal Betray Physicians Discretion Console Sufferers Malady Chagrin

Author:Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

“It seems to me that your doctor [Tronchin] is more of a philosopher than a physician. As for me, I much prefer a doctor who is anoptimist and who gives me remedies that will improve my health. Philosophical consolations are, after all, useless against real ailments. I know only two kinds of sickness--physical and moral: all the others are purely in the imagination.”

Knows Giving Kind Two Real Seems Imagination Moral Doctors Give Me Philosophical Medicine Philosopher Useless Sickness Remedy Physicians Consolation Doctor Who Ailments

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“I do not think that a Physician should be admitted into the College till he could bring proofs of his having cured, in his own person, at least four incurable distempers.”

Thinking Should Persons Four College Doctors Medicine Proof Physicians

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“True men and women are all physicians to make us well.”

Men Wells Humanity Men And Women Physicians True Man

Author:C. A. Bartol

“There is a world of science necessary in choosing books. I have known some people in great sorrow fly to a novel, or the last light book in fashion. One might as well take a rose-draught for the plague! Light reading does not do when the heart is really heavy. I am told that Goethe, when he lost his son, took to study a science that was new to him. Ah! Goethe was a physician who knew what he was about.”

People World Wells Heart Doe Book Light Might Lasts Reading Lost Known Novel Study Fashion Son Sorrow Rose Heavy Physicians Plague Draught

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“There is a great deal we never think of calling religion that is still fruit unto God, and garnered by Him in the harvest. The fruits of the Spirit are love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, patience, goodness. I affirm that if these fruits are found in any form, whether you show your patience as a woman nursing a fretful child, or as a man attending to the vexing detail of a business, or as a physician following the dark mazes of sickness, or as a mechanic fitting the joints and valves of a locomotive; being honest true besides, you bring forth truth unto God.”

“There is no passion that so much transports men from their right judgments as anger. No one would demur upon punishing a judge with death who should condemn a criminal upon the account of his own choler; why then should fathers and pedants be any more allowed to whip and chastise children in their anger? It is then no longer correction bat revenge. Chastisement is instead of physic to children; and should we suffer a physician who should be animated against and enraged at his patient?”

Men Should Children Suffering Passion Father Judging Judgment Accounts Anger Patient Revenge Criminals Physicians Bats Animated Whips Transport Corrections Chastisement Pedants

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“Many a woman shudders... at the terrible eclipse of those intellectual powers which in early life seemed prophetic of usefulness and happiness, hence the army of martyrs among our married and unmarried women who, not having cultivated a taste for science, art or literature, form a corps of nervous patients who make fortunes for agreeable physicians.”

Art Form Literature Terrible Taste Married Intellectual Army Fortune Patient Nervous Physicians Martyr Usefulness Eclipse Prophetic Unmarried Married Women Early Life

Author:Sarah Moore Grimke

“Little does the sick man consult his own interests, who makes his physician his heir.”

Men Littles Doe Interest Sick Physicians Heirs Sick Man

Author:Publilius Syrus

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