#physician

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes. ↗

— Sophocles

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The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman. ↗

— Daniel D. Palmer

#diet #dr #physicians #quiet

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

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After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#disease #doctors #life #medical-training #medicine

One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself. He heals himself, by his own power, exactly as he walks by means of his own power, or eats, or thinks, breathes or sleeps. ↗

— Georg Groddeck

#breathes #brought #eats #exactly #forget

Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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Well, first of all, let me say that I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that really didn't pay off. ↗

— Warren Zevon

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We'd like to have immediate answers to all of our questions. I think medicine in particular. I found it frustrating as a physician sometimes to not be able to tell someone exactly why something was happening to them. There are still so many mysteries in medicine. ↗

— Laurel Clark

#answers #exactly #found #frustrating #happening

I do like books on anatomy. I have to say I'm an amateur physician, I guess. ↗

— Tom Waits

#anatomy #books #guess #i #i do

I decided I wanted to be a physician when I was seven years old. ↗

— Samuel Wilson

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