Quotations

«The dedicated physician is constantly striving for a balance between personal, human values, scientific realities and the inevitabilities of God's will.»

«The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.»

«The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease»

«One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine»

«Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.»

«PHYSICIAN, n. One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.»

«They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.»

«So you wish to conquer in the Olympic games, my friend? And I too, by the Gods, and a fine thing it would be! But first mark the conditions and the consequences, and then set to work. You will have to put yourself under discipline; to eat by rule, to avoid cakes and sweetmeats; to take exercise at the appointed hour whether you like it or no, in cold and heat; to abstain from cold drinks and from wine at your will; in a word, to give yourself over to the trainer as to a physician. Then in the conflict itself you are likely enough to dislocate your wrist or twist your ankle, to swallow a great deal of dust, or to be severely thrashed, and, after all these things, to be defeated.»

«Physician, help yourself: thus help your patient too. Let this be his best help: that he may behold with his eyes the man who heals himself.»

«My body is pierced through with the arrow of love. How can any physician know the cure? »