Physician Quotes

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Obviously, drug companies don`t like to have these (black box warnings) on their products because it would make a physician think twice or more than that before prescribing it,

- Elizabeth Cohen

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

This is what I see as one of those dream jobs, ... It`s a right-sized town and a phenomenal medical center. Mayo is a physician-led organization so we are working to develop physician leadership. I love this stuff; this is fun.

- Barbara Allen

Unexplained weight loss in the elderly '¦ usually triggers an investigation (by the person`s physician).

- David Bennett

I`ve never really known anything but Hollywood. I don`t think I could relate to a physician or an accountant. What would we talk about? I guess, when I really stop and think about it, I have lived a very narrow existence because movies are all I know."

- Venetia Stevenson

You need a lot of overhead clearance for all these technologies. The old building had a real low roof deck, and there was absolutely no room to put anything overhead. With this new design, we can continue to grow technologically. We just started an electronic medical records program. We hope to have computerized physician order entry sometime in the next year or so.

- Michael Thomas

(A new building also enabled Meade District Hospital to adopt digital imaging and other technologies that wouldn`t have been possible in its old facility.) You need a lot of overhead clearance for all these technologies, ... The old building had a real low roof deck, and there was absolutely no room to put anything overhead. With this new design, we can continue to grow technologically. We just started an electronic medical records program. We hope to have computerized physician order entry sometime in the next year or so.

- Michael Thomas

There`s some sense that at least with blood pressure, it`s fairly easily measured, and if there is an increase, then the physician can take the patient off the drug fairly quickly.

- Jim Hill

This is a terrible situation, that a doctor at the top of his career can be painted with this brush. This is a travesty for the public. Unfortunately, the system is rigged when a physician doesn`t have a chance to properly defend himself.

- George Innes

The merger will give us technology to enable consumers to interact with their physician and health plan.

- Jeff Arnold

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

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

- William Osler

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

- William Osler

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

- William Osler

The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.

- William Osler

All the preliminary smears and the antibody tests ... are negative. I recently spoke to his infectious-disease attending physician, and we both feel that (anthrax) is an unlikely diagnosis at this point.

- Thomas Ryan

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

The drawback is that you may not see your own personal physician, but the reality is you`re not going to see them anyway.

- Scott Mills

Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.

- Abdul Wakil Muttawakil

Our role is to develop techniques that allow us to provide emergency life-saving procedures to injured patients in an extreme, remote environment without the presence of a physician.

- Alan Hoffenblum

As a physician, I understand how important it is to collect data on people so we can understand what`s happening with them. I will be in the position to help enable that knowledge.

- Allison Gibney

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.

- Allison Gibney

It`s such a long mission and we get to spend so much time in space... we`re doing such exciting research. And I don`t want to overemphasize the life science research, but as a physician the life science research that we`re doing is extremely exciting.

- Allison Gibney

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

- Alton Greene

As a physician, I know many doctors want to utilize new technology, but they find the cost prohibitive.

- American Society

What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?

- Amos Kimunya

The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.

- Amos Kimunya

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

- Andrea Gaston

My parents would have preferred me to become a surgeon or a physician but were most understanding of the ambitions of their son.

- Andres Martinez

To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.

- Andrew Eakle

From our perspective, the physician always makes that final decision, and the patient`s well-being is always our primary concern.

- Angie McDaniel

It was a senseless crime. My baby had the potential to be a physician -- a healer. We pray that out of her death, there will be healing for this community.

- Anthony Veliz

We don`t have any true competitors. The information we provide is unique in that it is far more sensitive, can detect smaller changes in physician behavior, and is focused within the walls of the physician`s office.

- Antywane Robinson

(On CNN, Jeffrey Williams, a physician at Charity Hospital in New Orleans, addressed the hospital`s challenges -- along with a lack of food, water, and power generation:) We`re not getting any information, ... Our lack of communication is a real problem.

- Arnie Kander

They came across this medical chart; they had a question about it; they requested that it be sent on for review, and there is a disagreement between the reviewer and the treating physician.

- Arthur C. Martinez

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- Ashley Goforth

There are two perfectly good drugs to treat that disease, and the physician is not going to have the chance to give both of those. He is only going to have a choice to give one.

- Badia Aref

(T)he physician records indicate that there had not been a diagnosis of HIV or AIDS ... , or any presentation that this illness might be present, ... All intake screenings, physicals and infirmary visits revealed no indication of HIV or AIDS.

- Barbara Folk

If you had an auto accident and you came here and had an MRI and stored your image and your physician is in California, the physician would have access to the image through the Internet,

- Barbara Kolsun

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

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

- William Osler

As a physician, Senator Frist has a moral calling to save lives and alleviate suffering. He joins Nancy Reagan, dozens of Nobel Laureates, thousands of scientists, and millions of patients across the nation in calling for an end to the restrictions that have shackled the search for new cures. I applaud his courage in putting patients over politics.

- Edward Kennedy

A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician

- Hippocrates