Quote: Cure the disease and kill the patient. Author: Francis Bacon 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman
Quote: When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much. Author: Enid Bagnold 1889-1981, British Novelist, Playwright
Quote: One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they are uncertain about the value of the actual lives of the patients they are treating. This is not because they are callous or personally inhuman: it is because they live in and accept a society which is incapable of knowing what a human life is worth. Author: John Berger 1926-, British Actor, Critic
Quote: Nature, time and patience are the three great physicians. Author: H. G. Bohn British Publisher
Quote: Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. Author: Erma Bombeck 1927-, American Author, Humorist
Quote: Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals. Author: Napoleon Bonaparte 1769-1821, French General, Emperor
Quote: A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war. Author: Samuel Butler 1612-1680, British Poet, Satirist
Quote: Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too. Author: Anton Chekhov 1860-1904, Russian Playwright, Short Story Writer
Quote: I asked [my doctors] if I'd be able to play singles tennis and they said I could. That made me very happy since I haven't played in five years. Author: Walter Cronkite 1916-, American Broadcast Journalist
Quote: Surgeons must be very careful. When they take the knife!, underneath their fine incisions, stirs the Culprit -- Life! Author: Emily Dickinson 1830-1886, American Poet
Quote: The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find. Author: Denis Diderot 1713-1784, French Philosopher
Quote: I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease. Author: John Donne 1572-1632, British Metaphysical Poet
Quote: When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 1859-1930, British Author, ''Sherlock Holmes''
Quote: The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes. Author: Desiderius Erasmus c.1466-1536, Dutch Humanist
Quote: The practice of medicine is a thinker's art, the practice of surgery a plumber s. Author: Martin H. Fisher
Quote: God heals and the doctor takes the fee. Author: Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat
Quote: The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him. Author: Sigmund Freud 1856-1939, Austrian Physician - Founder of Psychoanalysis
Quote: Employment is nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness. Author: Claudius Galen 130-200, Physician born in Pergamus
Quote: The doctor found, when she was dead, her last disorder mortal. Author: Oliver Goldsmith 1728-1774, Anglo-Irish Author, Poet, Playwright
Quote: The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy -- to heal, as it is termed. Author: Samuel Hahnemann 1755-1843, German Physician, Founder of Homeopathy
Quote: I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation. A doctor who cannot take out your appendix properly will recommend you to a doctor who will be unable to remove your tonsils with success. Author: Ernest Hemingway 1898-1961, American Writer
Quote: Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer. Author: George Herbert 1593-1632, British Metaphysical Poet
Quote: Life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment treacherous, judgment difficult. Author: Hippocrates Ancient Greek Physician
Quote: Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm. Author: Hippocrates Ancient Greek Physician
Quote: What I call a good patient is one who, having found a good physician, sticks to him till he dies. Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet
Quote: It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying. Author: Thomas Horder
Quote: I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. Author: Alice James 1848-1892, American Diarist, Sister of Henry, William James
Quote: My doctor gave me six months to live but when I couldn't pay the bill, he gave me six months more. Author: Walter Matthau 1920-, American Actor
Quote: I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity. Author: Jonathan Miller 1934-, British Actor, Director
Quote: Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few doctors, either male or female, as possible. For, mark you, the women have made no improvement -- they have only tried to be ''men'' and they have only succeeded in being third-rate men. Author: Florence Nightingale 1820-1910, British Nurse
Quote: The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine. Author: Sir William Osler 1849-1919, Canadian Physician
Quote: Time is generally the best doctor. Author: Ovid BC 43-18 AD, Roman Poet
Quote: Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest, but that all seek the good of their patients? For we have agreed that a physician strictly so called, is a ruler of bodies, and not a maker of money, have we not? Author: Plato BC 427?-347?, Greek Philosopher
Quote: Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician. Author: Matthew Prior 1664-1721, British Diplomat, Poet
Quote: For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill. Author: Marcel Proust 1871-1922, French Novelist
Quote: The superior doctor prevents sickness; The mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; The inferior doctor treats actual sickness; Author: Chinese Proverb Sayings of Chinese Origin
Quote: A surgeon should be young a physician old. Author: French Proverb Sayings of French Origin
Quote: Physician, heal thyself. Author: Hebrew Proverb Sayings of Hebrew Origin
Quote: Every invalid is a physician. Author: Irish Proverb Sayings of Irish Origin
Quote: If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; if he kills, the earth hides it. Author: Scottish Proverb Sayings of Scottish Origin
Quote: There are more old drunkards than old physicians. Author: Frantois Rabelais 1495-1553, French Satirist, Physician, and Humanist
Quote: Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man. Author: Jean Jacques Rousseau 1712-1778, Swiss Political Philosopher, Educationist, Essayist
Quote: Doctors don't know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in spirit. Author: William Saroyan 1908-1981, American Writer, Novelist,, Playwright
Quote: Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away. Author: George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist
Quote: The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them. Author: George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist
Quote: There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse. Author: Laurence Sterne 1713-1768, British Author
Quote: The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman. Author: Jonathan Swift 1667-1745, Anglo-Irish Satirist
Quote: He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients, no, three, I think -- yes, it was three; I attended their funerals. Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer
Quote: A patient going to a doctor for his first visit was asked, ''And whom did you consult before coming to me?'' ''Only the village druggist,'' was the answer. ''And what sort of foolish advice did that numbskull give you?'' asked the doctor, his tone and manner denoting his contempt for the advice of the layman. ''Oh,'' replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, ''he told me to come and see you.'' Author: Source Unknown
Quote: The difference between an itch and an allergy is about one hundred bucks. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: The doctor knows what his trained eyes see -- and he says it's the last of the ninth for me. So one more thing while the clouds loom dark and then I must leave this noisy park. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing. Author: Voltaire 1694-1778, French Historian, Writer
Quote: I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age. Author: Voltaire 1694-1778, French Historian, Writer
Quote: Men who are occupied in the restoration of health to other men, by the joint exertion of skill and humanity, are above all the great of the earth. They even partake of divinity, since to preserve and renew is almost as noble as to create. Author: Voltaire 1694-1778, French Historian, Writer
Quote: The majority of the diseases which the human family have been and still are suffering under, they have created by ignorance of their own organic health, and work perseveringly to tear themselves to pieces, and when broken down and debilitated in body and mind, send for the doctor and drug themselves to death. Author: Ellen Gould White 1827-1915, American Seventh-day Adventist Leader
Quote: For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year? Author: Virginia Woolf 1882-1941, British Novelist, Essayist