Physicians / Doctors Quotes

The devil's bride, Reason, that pretty whore, comes in and thinks she's wise, and what she says, what she thinks, is from the Holy Spirit, who can help us, then? Not judges, not doctors, no king or emperor, because reason is the Devil's greatest whore.

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.

One does not ask of one who suffers: What is your country and what is your religion? One merely says: You suffer, that is enough for me...

… the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race … Properly the Jew ought hardly to be hears of; but he is hears of, has always been heard of … His contributions to the world’s list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine, and abstruse learning are way out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers.

Action must begin in the developing world itself. These countries do not lack financial resources. What they lack is political courage. We need to ask the leaders of the Third World, and ask them bluntly, why they insist on spending $130 billion each year on the military when even a quarter of this expenditure can finance their entire essential social agenda. And we must ask them why they insist on having six soldiers for every one doctor when their people are dying of ordinary diseases, from internal disintegration, not from external aggression, from many threats to human security, not any threats to territorial security.

I’ve got my own Medicare plan. I’ve got an intern for a son-in-law.

You should never trust the experts. If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe.

Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents.

We didn’t execute people who were feeble-minded the way the Nazis did, but we did sexually sterilize them.

The doctors are always changing their opinions. They always have some new fad.

In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods, than in giving health to men.

The best information from the leading medical and health scientists and experts in the country was dead wrong.

There is no good reason that the average 7-11 uses more information technology than the average doctor’s office. That is wrong….That is why government needs to give this a big push.

In the country parishes where vaccination [for smallpox] is not the custom, with no physician near, where the colored children are poorly fed and clad, and much exposed, they sicken, die, and are buried, without a record of their numbers. It is respectfully suggested that an order declaring vaccination to be a military necessity, would save many lives among these poor people. If physicians and surgeons were required to vaccinate all who apply, at a moderate public charge, and all were required to apply, it might arrest the ravages of this dreadful scourge

The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.

Who shall decide when doctors disagree?

There is a pervasive lack of accountability in medicine that extends from the most newly qualified doctor right through the most senior professors.

Many years ago doctors would bleed sick patients with leeches. Today, the insurance companies do that.

Find a doctor who cares about you, because a big part of health care is caring.

Rich men do not lack physicians, but the poor can rarely afford good ones. We must pay special attention to them.

Members of state legislatures are owned by doctors and lawyers. That's why workers' compensation cannot be solved.

Doctors no longer charge patients, patients no longer pay doctors, and neither determines what is medically necessary.

Medicine is a noble art. We must preserve our moral purity.

May I never see in the patient anything but a fellow creature in pain.

...The blood from the right chamber of the heart must arrive at the left chamber but there is no direct pathway between them. The thick septum of the heart is not perforated and does not have visible pores as some people thought or invisible pores as Galen thought. The blood from the right chamber must flow through the vena arteriosa (pulmonary artery) to the lungs, spread through its substances, be mingled there with air, pass through the arteria venosa (pulmonary vein) to reach the left chamber of the heart and there form the vital spirit.