#physician

The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would. ↗

— William E. Gladstone

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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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The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

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

— Tom Waits

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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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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease. ↗

— John Donne

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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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