“Five hundred years before Christ some physicians of ancient India, working under the influence of the Lord Buddha, advanced the art of healing to so perfect a state that they were able to abolish surgery, although the surgery of their time was as efficient, or more so, than that of the present day.”
Edward Bach
“The most dangerous physicians are those who can act in perfect mimicry of the born physician.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease”
William Osler
“Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians”
Marcel Proust
“Physicians mend or end us, Secundum artem; but although we sneer - In health - when ill we call them to attend us, Without the least propensity to jeer”
Lord Byron
“I am dying with the help of too many physicians.”
Alexander The Great
“The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.”