There is a clear matter that I am not a practicing physician. I have never been a practitioner; everybody has known for decades. I’m a developer of the technology. – Robert Jarvik
Well, I would never do a study because I’m a practicing physician. I mean, all I do is treat people. – Robert Atkins
Physical immortality is seductive. The ancient Hindus sought it; the Greek physician Galen from the 2nd Century A.D. and the Arabic philosopher/physician Avicenna from the 11th Century A.D. believed in it. – S. Jay Olshansky
I am not a physician, but I am deeply interested in diagnostic categories and have read extensively in the history of the subject. – Siri Hustvedt
Given one well-trained physician of the highest type he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists. – William J. Mayo
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
The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician. – William J. Mayo
One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine. – William Osler
Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes. – Sophocles
Well, first of all, let me say that I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that really didn’t pay off. – Warren Zevon
