Doctor Quotes
You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.
The dedicated doctor knows that he must be both scientist and humanitarian, his most agonizing decisions lie in the field of human relations.
As physicians, we are invited into the most intimate chambers of our patients’ lives. We should acknowledge that unfettered trust with dignity, deference, and respect. For a physician, caring for patients is not only a duty; it is a privilege. Alleviating pain and restoring health for another human being can induce an exhilaration few others experience in their careers.
The good physician treats the disease, the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
Pay the farmer or pay the hospital.
In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.
Only the healing art enables one to make a name for himself and at the same time give benefit to others.
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
The mark of a true doctor is usually illegible.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.
Nurses dispense comfort, compassion, and caring without even a prescription.
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
The doctor should be opaque to his patients, and like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.