There is no such thing as an infallible doctor.
You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.
Each patient carries his own doctor inside him.
Most doctors are prisoners of their education and shackled by their profession.
You cannot be a good doctor without pity.
Medicines heals doubts as well as diseases.
When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease that means it cannot be cured.
The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease.
The worst thing about medicine is that one kind makes another necessary.
When you treat a disease, first treat the mind.
It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Doctors put a wall up between themselves and their patients; nurses broke it down.
Doctors always think anybody doing something they aren’t is a quack; also they think all patients are idiots.
The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.
No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself.
To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.
Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice.
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.