"There is a great difference between a good physician and a bad one; yet very little between a good one and none at all."
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"A physician is one who pours drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less."
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"The physician cannot prescribe by letter, he must feel the pulse."
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"Men are men before they are lawyers, or physicians, or merchants, or manufacturers; and if you make them capable and sensible men, they will make themselves capable and sensible lawyers or physicians."
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"Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians."
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"A physician, after he had felt the pulse of Pausanias, and considered his constitution, saying, "He ails nothing," "It is because, sir," he replied, "I use none of your physic.""
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"Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest, but that all seek the good of their patients? For we have agreed that a physician strictly so called, is a ruler of bodies, and not a maker of money, have we not?"
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"Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter."
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"If you do not smile, you are judged lacking in a 'pleasing personality' - and you need to have a pleasing personality if you want to sell your services, whether as a waitress, a salesman, or a physician."
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"There's absolutely no reason at all that physicians, scientists, shouldn't be involved in things that affect all of us."
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"Nature performs the cure, the physician takes the fee."
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"Healing comes from the healed; not from the physician."
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"How many physicians, scientists, teachers, pastors, missionaries, statesmen, musicians, businessmen, and notable contributors to society have been murdered in the womb?"
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"This we prescribe, though no physician; Deep malice makes too deep incision; Forget, forgive; conclude and be agreed; Our doctors say this is no month to bleed."
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"Ask me no reason why I love you; for though Love use Reason for his physician, he admits him not for his counsellor."
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"Our reliance on the physician is a kind of despair of ourselves."
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"It is incident to physicians, I am afraid, beyond all other men, to mistake subsequence for consequence."
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"I decided I wanted to be a physician when I was seven years old."
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"I would say to young physicians that the more you intentionally improve the lives of the people in the community you serve the better your life will be and the greater your value will be to the community."
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"I do like books on anatomy. I have to say I'm an amateur physician, I guess."
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