Quotes about Physician

The staff of such a monitoring center could represent the future "hospitalist"—not likely to be called a "home-ist"—a physician particularly trained and adept at the interface of machines and people. You might describe them as geeks with compassion, not necessarily an oxymoron.

With all the drive to cost transparency, there is not only little emphasis to make quality-of-care data available, but also it is extremely hard to come by. That's why the call of Guest and Quincy from Consumer Reports that "consumers should have better information about hospital and physician performance than they can glean from user reviews on Yelp, Zagat's, Angie's List, or other such sources" is such a tall order.

As to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least, to do no harm.

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).