Anthony Burgess Quotes

I love doctors and hate their medicine.

A physician, after he had felt the pulse of Pausanias, and considered his constitution, saying, "He ails nothing," "It is because, sir," he replied, "I use none of your physic."

Doctors always think anybody doing something they aren't is a quack; also they think all patients are idiots.

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

If I can help it, I don't go to modern doctors.

Every patient carries his or her own doctor inside.

Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.

I have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.

You know you're screwed when a Western doctor recommends acupuncture.

Each patient carries his own doctor inside him.

We are more successfully healed by the vis medicatrix naturae (healing power of nature) than by the most ingenious medical application.

I don't trust doctors. It's not to say there ain't some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn't trust 'em at all.

I really like my doctors. Some of them I love. I trust them.

I'm my own doctor. I have a group of people who call me up on a weekly basis. I'm a 'doctor' without a license.

The five patients in 'Rethinking Cancer' share with us the path of their recovery: the courage to take their own lives in their hands with a natural approach to healing their bodies.

I think people need to be comfortable questioning the authority of a doctor.

Some alternative medicines work when the instructions are followed. But I always recommend seeing a medical professional.

I use nothing but homeopathic remedies, for my girls as well.

The need is to recognize that The patient is the healer, Not the doctor.

The physician heals, Nature makes well.

Doctors couldn't be everywhere, so the Lord invented Vulcans. I thought you knew.

Strive to preserve your health; and in this you will better succeed in proportion as you keep clear of the physicians, for their drugs are a kind of alchemy concerning which there are no fewer books than there are medicines.

I can't manage without homeopathy. In fact, I never go anywhere without homeopathic remedies. I often make use of them.

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.