#physician

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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Most people are overconfident about their own abilities. That is probably a good thing. But we would be horrified if a physician's aide engaged in heart surgery. ↗

— Andrew Lo

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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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The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease. ↗

— William Osler

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

— William Osler

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Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician. ↗

— Matthew Prior

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Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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There are more old drunkards than old physicians. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

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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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