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O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse.

Aeschylus

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

We think it's reasonable if a woman wants to bring this up with her physician that they have a full discussion. It should be discussed with the woman and her decision should be honored.

Mary D'alton

Once they're in the room, they're patients like everybody else. If they have enough confidence in you to be their physician, I don't think you have to worry about that.

Celestino Vega

The fact that a physician is disciplined does not make them a bad doctor. They can be practicing a very high quality of medicine, very competent, and yet can be disciplined for a number of issues.

Thomas Reardon

We need much more effective physician-patient communication to educate the public on screening and early detection and when to have the tests.

Carolyn Runowicz

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

As long as they can work with their physician on it, and it remains voluntary, then we generally don't have a problem with it.

Dr. Edward Langston

Lactose intolerance is very prevalent in persons of color. As a physician, I see people who are dealing with conditions related to their inability to digest lactose. They're led to believe they need to include dairy for health benefits. That is not true.

Milton Mills

As a physician (the philosophy) is not to treat thyself but go seek help from another physician if you are sick.

Celestino Vega

Physician-owned, free-standing centers like this are the new wave of health care in the outpatient setting.

David Ireland

We'd rather that be left up to the patient and their physician. With this, unfortunately, compromise has to be made in order to get something passed.

Julie Salz Greenstein

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

Jennifer Perry

You can potentially control what the physician writes.

Richard L. Evans

In those cases, I refer them to a physician. I like to develop a relationship with local doctors.

Warren Menard

Physician-education material like this is a long time coming.

Caroline Smith Dewaal

Fewer than 40 percent of the alternative therapies are discussed with one's physician, ... In my personal view, the current status quo which could easily be described as 'Don't ask and don't tell,' needs to be abandoned -- that is not in anyone's best interest.

David Eisenberg

This is an attempt to disrupt the very trusting (doctor-patient) relationship, one which is very important when a patient is ill, ... When they come to their physician, (patients) need to trust that physician, not think that they're crooks.

Thomas Reardon

A driver's physician does have the authority to write us and say, This person should no longer be driving,' and they'll tell us why, and we'll issue a suspension then and there.

Jackie Branche

It is physician-owned, and all the board members are physicians.

Barry Baker

You know, you're trying to please too many people. From the patient on the leg, to the family members, to the physician to the insurance carrier. And it's all got to be done tomorrow.

Ken Heide

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

George Herbert

It is amazing to do this. It is such a big plus for the physician because they have it with them at their fingertips.

Virgil Kelly

There's no such thing as an unemployed physician.

Kurt Mosley

I wish I could blink my eyes and deliver physician order entry to every physician in a month.

Mary Buckley

Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there?

Bible

We encourage students to talk to a counselor or their physician. [The student] is advised that their drinking is at a higher level.

Alison Homan

I joined Hadassah because I knew they did wonderful work, ... My own father was a physician and built his own hospital and sent medical supplies to Israel during the Six Day War.

Diane Ross

He was thinking of this in the medical framework of Rochester, Minn. He imagined abortions would be performed by a family physician or in a hospital.

David J. Garrow

The dedicated physician is constantly striving for a balance between personal, human values, scientific realities and the inevitabilities of God's will.

David Allman

Physician, heal thyself.

Bible

Not only will this impact this industry, but it's a cautionary tale for other physician joint ventures.

William Wright

We remain firm in our belief that a physician-owned, limited-services hospital is not in the best interests of our community. We will now review our options.

Jim Cummings

It expresses our concern that, over time, the labels became cluttered with a lot of information that wasn't necessarily directly pertinent to the patient and the physician. These labels need to be reclaimed for patients and physicians.

Dr. Scott Gottlieb

'Never must the physician say, the disease is incurable. By that admission he denies God,our Creator; he doubts Nature with her profuseness of hidden powers and mysteries.'

Morris Fishbein

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

David A. Bennett

The physician assistant is known as a physician extender.

Suzanne York

We found that most people really saw as important having a good relationship with the physician looking after them in the hospital.

Daren Heyland

A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man -- he must view the man in his world.

Harvey Cushing

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.

Robert Robinson

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

Sir William Osler

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

Jeff Arnold

People are drawn to non-physician offices because of price.

Dr. Rhoda Narins

From your confessor, lawyer and physician, Hide not your case on no condition.

John Harington

The doctors have nothing to do with that. It's a whole different network. It's not even the doctor of physician that knows if there's an organ needed or not. The first thing for the doctor is to save a life and to sustain life.

Tiffany Tripp

Anyone who has been in the facility during that time -- if they are concerned, they should see their physician, but their likelihood of becoming infected was extremely low.

Dr. Wilma Wooten

Nor can medical schools charge what it costs to train a physician.

Carolyn Williams

I'd like to sit down with this guy and ask him why he did it. It might have to do with him being a veterinarian and not a physician.

George Annas

We already have that right, we don't need legislation for that. If a physician wants something like that dispensed, they should find someone that will dispense it.

Matt Hartwig

Board certification ensures that a physician has an in-depth and intimate knowledge of all aspects of sleep medicine, which leads to proper diagnosis, treatment and follow-up care.

Jim Arcuri

It's hard to attract a new physician to a single-doctor practice, because they're always on call.

Bev Denning

If you need a sleeping pill, you need to contact your physician.

Geralyn Frandsen

If you look at the obligations of the health professions and doctors in particular, UN standards, World Medical Association standards, AMA standards, the responsibility of the physician in war or peace is to improve peoples' health and not to inflict pain or harm.

Leonard Rubenstein

What the HMOs can't explain is why premiums are increasing twice as fast as hospital and physician costs.

Jerry Flanagan

Beethoven saw physician after physician in search of a cure for his physical ailments. He suffered from bad digestion, chronic abdominal pain, irritability and depression.

William Walsh

That opportunity to visit the medical facilities, for me as a physician, was an eye opener. It's obviously free care and lifesaving care.

Phil Gingrey

For persons with diabetes, the right physician can make the difference between living with diabetes as opposed to suffering from diabetes.

Robert Rizza

The first thing I'm going to try to do is bond with them a little bit and try to get them to see me as a friend and not as a clinical, cold physician.

John Padilla

If something unexpectedly changes -- say your blood pressure level -- you want to be the first to know. These monitoring systems will be your trigger to see a physician.

Carrie Godes

We can see the patient and the monitors, talk to the parents, talk to the doctor, and move the camera around and help the emergency room physician with that child.

Jim Marcin

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.

Denise Reed

Information to patients so they can go in and have a more informed conversation with their physician about new cures and new treatments.

Alan Holmer

Can healthcare really ever be high quality if the patient-physician interaction is hurried, disrespectful, cold, callous, or uncaring?

James Lileks

The physician may also recommend additional tests if necessary.

Dr. Wilma Wooten

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

You should really filter information about diagnosis and treatment through your physician. The Internet can be a treasure-trove of information but you can't accept everything at face value.

Donald Palmisano

The FDA believes that a physician who prescribes, dispenses, and/or administers HGH for an unauthorized use violates federal law.

Laura Alvey

A food diary is an easy way for patients to keep track of food reactions so the exact history can be accurately conveyed to the physician.

David Fleischer

The data we have comes from a physician re-registration survey. So when physicians are renewing their licenses we can capture information about them.

Jean Moore

We always have one physician who is on call. We make an effort to make sure someone can be seen even if it's not with their regular physician.

Nicole Spoor

We would hope that physicians would recognize that clinical skills and communications skills are very important to maintaining one's competency as a physician.

Nancy Achin Audesse

Also those who have appointments with their physician can receive a flu shot as part of their visit.

Amy Johnson

There may be issues that could subject a physician to discipline even if a suspension of license is lifted.

Candis Cohen

My sense is that the discussion around erectile dysfunction and physicians may be somewhat more enthusiastic or easier as new products enter the market, ... The barriers between ... patient and physician will be much easier with newer entrants [to the market].

Tony Butler

All I can say is he performed appropriately. I am not a physician. I can't give a professional opinion of his level of care, ... His orders were appropriate.

James Welch

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

Sir William Osler

No North Carolina physician that we're aware of has ever been involved directly or indirectly in an execution. If we got a complaint, the board would have to look at that, consult with outside people and come to some decision.

Dave Henderson

From a referring physician situation, it's huge.

Brandan Wright

This study would indicate that even though someone was exposed some 30 or 40 years ago, when you go to a physician, it's probably a good idea to bring it to the physician's attention.

John Boice

PHYSICIAN, n. One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.

Ambrose Bierce

It's data the physician should know.

Edward Scolnick

A person could go to physician after physician until they get the one they want.

Ed Pemble