Plato Quotes

I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.

I grew up with a real appreciation about just how wonderful and intimate the relationship is between a doctor and a patient was and the sense that this was a noble profession.

I think if I had done anything else I would like to have been a doctor. This is the sort of polar opposition to being a writer, I suppose.

The physician, to the extent he is a physician, considers only the good of the patient in what he prescribes, and his own not at all

As a doctor, I've learned the importance and value of listening.

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

Physicians mend or end us, Secundum artem; but although we sneer - In health - when ill we call them to attend us, Without the least propensity to jeer

There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.

Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the earliest records of every culture on earth. It is hard to think of a more dependable or enduring occupation, harder still to imagine any future events leading to its extinction.

The Doctor's Motto: Have patients.

If I could be a doctor and save lives I would, but I can't so I sing songs.

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

I'm happier writing about doctors than I would have been being one.

The physician's ability to reassure the patient is a major factor in activating the body's own healing system.

A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist; he is either, like the surgeon, a craftsman, or, like the physician and the psychologist, an artist. This means that in order to be a good doctor a man must also have a good character, that is to say, whatever weaknesses and foibles he may have, he must love his fellow human beings in the concrete and desire their good before his own.

I have endeavored to show that there is no real service of humanity in the profession of medicine and that it is injurious to mankind.

Today, the practice of medicine in an urban, technological society rarely provides either the time or the environment to encourage a doctor-patient relationship that promotes healing.

Communication is everything, especially as a doctor, you need to communicate with your patients.

I want to relax for a while, maybe go back to my medical practice. I got a lot of old patients waiting for me.

Teaching people to eat doesn't make a lot of money. Nevertheless, most of us go into medicine because of a genuine desire to help people and optimize their health.

I was a nurse.

It is fundamental when you are a doctor for a good doctor-patient relationship.

I am a career physician. I practiced for 32 years before I began my career as a public servant.

Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.

Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.