Physician Role Quotes

The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and the social problems should largely be solved by them.

Doctor Johnson said, that in sickness there were three things that were material; the physician, the disease, and the patient: and if any two of these joined, then they get the victory; for, Ne Hercules quidem contra duos [Not even Hercules himself is a match for two]. If the physician and the patient join, then down goes the disease; for then the patient recovers: if the physician and the disease join, that is a strong disease; and the physician mistaking the cure, then down goes the patient: if the patient and the disease join, then down goes the physician; for he is discredited.

PHYSICIAN, n. One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.

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

The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.

I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician.

As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paid.

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

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.

I am a scientist and I am a physician. So I write papers.

I think the way we think about cancer, the way we treat cancer, has dramatically changed in the last century. There is an enormous amount of options that a physician can provide today, right down from curing patients, treating patients or providing patients with psychic solace or pain relief.

A few colleagues and I began Doctors for America with a simple belief that physicians should play a leadership role in designing and running our nation's health care system.

I don't necessarily want my physician making all my decisions.

As a physician, I understand how important it is to collect data on people so we can understand what's happening with them. I will be in the position to help enable that knowledge.

The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician.

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

As a physician, I treated hundreds of patients who needed long-term care, including ones with Alzheimer's.

Physician of the Iron Age, Goethe has done his pilgrimage. He took the suffering human race, He read each wound, each weakness clear -- And struck his finger on the place, And said -- Thou ailest here, and here.

I've always approached my job first as a physician. I'm here to help and take care of patients. I'm an administrator second.

There's absolutely no reason at all that physicians, scientists, shouldn't be involved in things that affect all of us.

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.

As a physician specializing in nutrition, my priority is to the health of the public.

The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.

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

The mind and body are not separate units, but one integrated system. How we act and what we think, eat, and feel are all related to our health. Physicians should be capable of teaching this behavior to patients.