79 Quotes About Physicians

  • Author Erasmus Darwin
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    There are some modern practitioners, who declaim against medical theory in general, not considering that to think is to theorize; and that no one can direct a method of cure to a person labouring under disease, without thinking, that is, without theorizing; and happy therefore is the patient, whose physician possesses the best theory.

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  • Author Robertson Davies
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    The problem for a Paracelsian physician like me is that I see diseases as disguises in which people present me with their wretchedness.

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  • Author Epictetus
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    You ought to choose both physician and friend, not the most agreeable, but the most useful.

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  • Author Ezekiel Emanuel
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    Americans tend to endorse the use of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia when the question is abstract and hypothetical.

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  • Author Abraham Flexner
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    A patient had a 50-50 chance of benefiting from visiting a physician as of 1910. Medicine was more like voodoo than science until the 20th Century.

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