FAMOUS QUOTES ON DOCTORS

“The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.” – William Osler

“Medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.” – Anton Chekhov

“Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.” – Hippocrates

“The greatest medicine of all is to teach people how not to need it.” – Hua Tuo

“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.” – Thomas Edison

“A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man – he must view the man in his world.” – Harvey Cushing

“It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.” – Hippocrates

“Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.” – Anton Chekhov

“The doctor’s mission is to keep dead people alive, to break the news honestly but kindly, to tell patients not what they want to hear, but what they need to know.” – Atul Gawande

“The best doctor in the world is the veterinarian. He can’t ask his patients what’s wrong. He’s got to just know.” – Will Rogers

“In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.” – Arthur Schopenhauer

“Doctors are frustrated because they have too few tools to help them cure their patients. Lawyers are frustrated because they have too many tools to help them convict and acquit theirs.” – Michael Crichton

“The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman.” – Jonathan Swift DWIGHT D EISENHOWER QUOTES D-DAY

“The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.” – Voltaire

“It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the center of gravity of the universe.” – Thomas Carlyle

“The two best physicians of them all — Dr. Laughter and Dr. Sleep.” – Gregory Dean Jr.

“Medicine is only for those who cannot imagine doing something else.” – Luis Federico Leloir

“The doctor must have a quietened, a concentrated, an eager mind that looks only for the significant points. It is the sign of the clever diagnostician if he can see in the disease which he views merely since he views it, the latest stage in that process which may have beguiled the patient or deceived his last medical attendant.” – Sir William Osler

“The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.” – Jonathan Swift

“The doctor’s medicine gets the credit when the body cures itself.” – Thomas Fuller

“The diseases which physicians know best are those which they have themselves.” – Moliere

“Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.” – Publilius Syrus

“The doctor should be clean in person, well-dressed, and anointed with sweet smelling unguents; he should chew betel nut, long pepper, and cardamom.” – Sushruta Samhita

“When a person is sick, it often takes the faith and knowledge of an expert physician to recognize the cure.” – Suzy Kassem

“The art of medicine is long, life is short; opportunity fleeting; experiment treacherous; judgment difficult.” – Hippocrates