The superior doctor prevents sickness; The mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; The inferior doctor treats actual sickness; – Chinese Proverb
If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; if he kills, the earth hides it. – Scottish Proverb
A surgeon should be young a physician old. – Proverb
Physician, heal thyself. – Proverb
Every invalid is a physician. – Proverb
A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist; he is either, like the surgeon, a craftsman, or, like the physician and the psychologist, an artist. – W. H. Auden
Cure the disease and kill the patient. – Francis Bacon
Physician — One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well. – Ambrose Bierce
Nature, time and patience are the three great physicians. – H. G. Bohn
As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paid. – Jean De La Bruyere
I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood. On why he gave up medicine – Michael Crichton
I asked my doctors if Id be able to play singles tennis and they said I could. That made me very happy since I havent played in five years. – Walter Cronkite
The two best physicians of them all — Dr. Laughter and Dr. Sleep. – Gregory Dean Jr.
Surgeons must be very careful. When they take the knife!, Underneath their fine incisions, stirs the Culprit – Life! – Emily Dickinson
I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease. – John Donne
The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes. – Desiderius Erasmus
Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell. – Dorothy Canfield Fisher
The practice of medicine is a thinkers art, the practice of surgery a plumber s. – Martin H. Fisher
