Quotes about Physician

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.

Honor a physician with the honor due unto him for the uses which ye may have of him: for the Lord hath created him.

Luke, the beloved physician.

The physician who teaches people to sustain their health is the superior physician. The physician who waits to treat people until after their health is lost is considered to be inferior. This is like waiting until one's family is starving to begin to plant seeds in the garden.

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

The physician is happy in the attachment of the families in which he practices. All think he has saved one of them, and he finds himself everywhere a welcome guest, a home in every house.

The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.

What is the use of discussing a man's abstract right to food or medicine? The question is upon the method of procuring and administering them. In that deliberation I shall always advise to call in the aid of the farmer and the physician, rather than the professor of metaphysics.

That physician is no better than a murderer, that negligently delayeth till his patient be dead or past cure (389).

There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs.

The failure to cultivate the power of peaceful concentration is the greatest single cause of mental breakdown, the great physician William Osler told the students of Yale.

In my own experience as a physician, I have not seen a miraculous healing, and I don't expect to see one.