#physician

A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous prophecy which life and death easily set at nought. ↗

— George Eliot

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I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

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Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

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The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician. ↗

— William J. Mayo

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Given one well-trained physician of the highest type he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists. ↗

— William J. Mayo

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Requiring military hospitals to perform elective abortions exposes the physicians, the nurses, the military personnel to move against their own personal convictions of life in many cases. ↗

— Rick Renzi

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What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble? ↗

— Benjamin Spock

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One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine. ↗

— William Osler

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

— Khalil Gibran

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He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

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