Physicians, of all men, are most happy: whatever good success
soever they have, the world proclaimeth and what faults they
commit, the earth covereth.
Francis Quarles
Quotes , Source: Hieroglyphics of the Life of Man
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Who worse than a physician
Would this report become? But I consider
By med'cine life may be prolonged, yet death
Will seize the doctor too. How ended she?
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: Cymbeline (Cymbeline at V, iv)
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I bought an unction of a mountebank,
So mortal that, but dip a knife in it,
Where it draws blood so cataplasm so rare,
Collected from all simples that have virtue
Under the moon, can save the thing from death
That is but scratched withal. I'll touch my point
With this contagion, that, if I gall him slightly,
It may be death.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Laertes at IV, vii)
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In poison there is physic; and these news,
Having been well, that would have made me sick,
Being sick, have in some measure made me well.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part II (Northumberland at I, i)
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Take physic, pomp;
Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel,
That thou mayst shake the superflux to them
And show the heavens more just.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: King Lear (King Lear at III, iv)
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'Tis time to give 'em physic, their diseases
Are grown so catching.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Sandys at I, iii)
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But in this point
All his tricks founder and he brings his physic
After his patient's death: the king already
Hath married the fair lady.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Chamberlain at III, ii)
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Trust not the physician;
His antidotes are poison, and he slays
More than you rob.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: The Life of Timon of Athens (Timon at IV, iii)
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(Macbeth:) How does your patient, doctor?
(Doctor:) Not so sick, my lord,
As she is troubled with thick-coming fancies
That keep her from her rest.
(Macbeth:) Cure her of that!
Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased,
Pluck from the memory of a rooted sorrow,
Raze out the written troubles of the brain,
And with some sweet oblivious antidote
Cleanse the stuffed bosom of the perilous stuff
Which weighs upon the heart?
(Doctor:) Therein the patient
Must minister to himself.
(Macbeth:) Throw physic to the dogs, I'll none of it!
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: Macbeth (Macbeth & Doctor at V, iii)
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In such a night
Did Thisbe fearfully o'ertrip the dew,
And saw the lion's shadow ere himself,
And ran dismayed away.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: The Merchant of Venice (Jessica at V, i)
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I do remember an apothecary,
And hereabouts 'a dwells, which late I noted
In tatt'red weeds, with overwhelming brows,
Culling of simples. Meagre were his looks,
Sharp misery had worn him to the bones;
And in his needy shop a tortoise hung,
An alligator stuffed, and other skins
Of ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelves
A beggarly account of empty boxes,
Green earthen pots, bladders, and musty seeds,
Remnants of packthread, and old cakes of roses
Were thinly scattered, to make up a show.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: Romeo and Juliet (Romeo at V, i)
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When I was sick, you gave me bitter pills,
And I must minister the like to you.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Proteus at II, iv)
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There is at bottom only one genuinely scientific treatment for
all diseases, and that is to stimulate the phagocytes.
George Bernard Shaw
Quotes , Source: The Doctor's Dilemma
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But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having
studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human
body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will
benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal
attention to the rich and the poor.
- Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire),
Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire)
Quotes , Source: A Philosophical Dictionary--Physicians
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One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of
fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among
them.
Virginia Woolf (nee Stephen)
Quotes , Source: Hours in a Library, found in the "Times Literary Suppliement" (London, Nov. 30, 1916)
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We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.
Elisabeth KüBler-Ross
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