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"I would like to promote the concept of a partnership of insurance companies, physicians and hospitals in deploying a basic framework for an electronic medical records system that is affordable."
"The sun - my almighty physician."
"Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess"
"The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease."
"Physicians still retain something of their priestly origin; they would gladly do what they forbid."
"It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients."
"Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure."
"But tell me, this physician of whom you were just speaking, is he a moneymaker, an earner of fees, or a healer of the sick?"
"You ought to choose both physician and friend, not the most agreeable, but the most useful."
"Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational."
"Seventy per cent of all patients who come to physicians could cure themselves if they got rid of their fears and worries."
"The physician heals, Nature makes well."
"Doctors frequently get it wrong. One out of five patients today is in the hospital because incorrect treatment by a physician put him or her there."
"You are also the physician who must watch over yourself. But in the course of every illness there are many days in which the physician can do nothing but wait."
"The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick."
"A man without persistence will never make a good shaman or a good physician."
"Insurance companies, whether private or government owned, must be compelled to pay for health-promoting measures. In turn, this will encourage physicians to offer such treatments in earnest."
"as the physicians say it happens in hectic fever, that in the beginning of the malady it is easy to cure but difficult to detect, but in the course of time, not having been either detected or treated in the beginning, it becomes easy to detect but difficult to cure"
"A physician who treated me as a nervous case for a while said in the end "No! It is not a matter of your nerves; it is I who am nervous"."
"A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god."
