Doctor Quotes
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 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.
In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.
A healthy outside starts from the inside
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
The doctor should be opaque to his patients, and like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
The mark of a true doctor is usually illegible.
The good physician treats the disease, the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.
Nurses dispense comfort, compassion, and caring without even a prescription.
Pay the farmer or pay the hospital.
The dedicated doctor knows that he must be both scientist and humanitarian, his most agonizing decisions lie in the field of human relations.