Quotes by Physician

"The biggest lessons I've learned in life have probably come from a bad situation, from an angry situation, even if I wasn't the one who was angry."

Evan R. Wood, American Physician

Life,

"Sometimes I forget that I am even watching myself, realizing that's me. It's like you almost become a fan yourself: You are just this normal person watching this show, and then you realize that it's your show. It's weird sometimes."

Evan R. Wood, American Physician

Forget,

"If I'm going to do anything extreme, I want it to have consequences."

Evan R. Wood, American Physician

Consequence, Consequences, Extreme, Want

"Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men's work at half men's wages, not because their work was inferior, but because they were women."

Anna H. Shaw, American Physician

Woman, Women, Work, Wages

"Before I had crossed the threshold of my church I was made to realize that I was shepherd of a divided flock."

Anna H. Shaw, American Physician

Church,

"On every side, and at every hour of the day, we came up against the relentless limitations of pioneer life."

Anna H. Shaw, American Physician

Life, Day, Limitations

"Widows are divided into two classes; the bereaved and the relieved."

Victor Robinson, American Physician

Widows,

"Even as a coin attains its full value when it is spent, so life attains its supreme value when one knows how to forfeit it with grace when the time comes."

Felix Marti-Ibanez, Spanish Physician

Life, Time, Grace, Value

"In Amsterdam the water is the mistress and the land the vassal. throughout the city there are as many canals and drawbridges as bracelets on a Gypsy's bronzed arms."

Felix Marti-Ibanez, Spanish Physician

Land, Water

"In medicine, as in statecraft and propaganda, words are sometimes the most powerful drugs we can use."

Sara Murray Jordan, American Physician

Drugs, Medicine, Propaganda, Words

"Nobody should smoke cigarettes - and smoking with an ulcer is like pouring gasoline on a burning house."

Sara Murray Jordan, American Physician

Smoking,

"The practice of medicine is a thinker's art the practice of surgery a plumber's."

Martin H. Fischer, American Physician

Art, Medicine, Practice

"Here's good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee."

Martin H. Fischer, American Physician

Work, Nature, Advice, Partnership

"A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession."

Martin H. Fischer, American Physician

Work, Day, Profession

"A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions."

Martin H. Fischer, American Physician

Rules,

"A man who cannot work without his hypodermic needle is a poor doctor. The amount of narcotic you use is inversely proportional to your skill."

Martin H. Fischer, American Physician

Work, Man, Poor, Skill

"Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice."

Martin H. Fischer, American Physician

Beginning, End, Practice

"Don't confuse hypothesis and theory. The former is a possible explanation; the latter, the correct one. The establishment of theory is the very purpose of science."

Martin H. Fischer, American Physician

Science, Purpose, Theory

"Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof."

Martin H. Fischer, American Physician

Work, Truth, Practice, Proof

"We humans are the greatest of earth's parasites."

Martin H. Fischer, American Physician

Earth,

"First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef."

Martin H. Fischer, American Physician

Death, Management, First, Reform

"When a man lacks mental balance in pneumonia he is said to be delirious. When he lacks mental balance without the pneumonia, he is pronounced insane by all smart doctors."

Martin H. Fischer, American Physician

Balance, Doctors, Man

"I find that most men would rather have their bellies opened for five hundred dollars than have a tooth pulled for five."

Martin H. Fischer, American Physician

Men,

"In diagnosis think of the easy first."

Martin H. Fischer, American Physician

First,

"In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science."

Martin H. Fischer, American Physician

Medical, Science, Understanding, Worth

"Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these - it's a state of mind."

Martin H. Fischer, American Physician

Business, Mind, Necessity, Research

"The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty - not marble floors and foundations."

Martin H. Fischer, American Physician

Education, Doctors, Poverty

"There is only one reason why men become addicted to drugs - they are weak men. Only strong men are cured, and they cure themselves."

Martin H. Fischer, American Physician

Men, Cure, Drugs, Reason

"Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature."

Martin H. Fischer, American Physician

Science, Facts, Literature

"Whenever ideas fail, men invent words."

Martin H. Fischer, American Physician

Men, Ideas, Words

"You must learn to talk clearly. The jargon of scientific terminology which rolls off your tongues is mental garbage."

Martin H. Fischer, American Physician

Jargon, Talk

"A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking."

Martin Henry Fischer, American Physician

Thinking,

"Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat."

Martin Henry Fischer, American Physician

Education, Driving

"Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them."

Martin Henry Fischer, American Physician

Birds, Drugs

"Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification."

Martin Henry Fischer, American Physician

Wisdom, Knowledge, Facts, Lies

"You can't be what you don't see. I didn't think about being a doctor. I didn't even think about being a clerk in a store, I'd never seen a black clerk in a clothing store."

Joycelyn Elders, American Physician

Being,

"We really need to get over this love affair with the fetus and start worrying about children."

Joycelyn Elders, American Physician

Love, Children

"One billion people in 175 countries will mark Earth Day. That puts tea parties in perspective, doesn't it?"

Greg Dworkin, American Physician

People, Countries, Day, Earth

"There are fewer and fewer Republicans."

Greg Dworkin, American Physician

Republican, Republicans

"I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people."

Mary S. Calderone, American Physician

Life, People, World

"Before the child ever gets to school it will have received crucial, almost irrevocable sex education and this will have been taught by the parents, who are not aware of what they are doing."

Mary S. Calderone, American Physician

Education, Sex, Parents, School

"Our children are not going to be just "our children" - they are going to be other people's husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren."

Mary S. Calderone, American Physician

People, Children, Husbands, Parents

"Our responsibility as privileged human beings is to pay back for the opportunities we've received."

Kathryn Anastos, American Physician

Responsibility,

"The biggest lessons I've learned in life have probably come from a bad situation, from an angry situation, even if I wasn't the one who was angry."

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"Sometimes I forget that I am even watching myself, realizing that's me. It's like you almost become a fan yourself: You are just this normal person watching this show, and then you realize that it's your show. It's weird sometimes."

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"If I'm going to do anything extreme, I want it to have consequences."

​

"Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men's work at half men's wages, not because their work was inferior, but because they were women."

​

"Before I had crossed the threshold of my church I was made to realize that I was shepherd of a divided flock."

​

"On every side, and at every hour of the day, we came up against the relentless limitations of pioneer life."

​

"Widows are divided into two classes; the bereaved and the relieved."

​

"Even as a coin attains its full value when it is spent, so life attains its supreme value when one knows how to forfeit it with grace when the time comes."

​

"In Amsterdam the water is the mistress and the land the vassal. throughout the city there are as many canals and drawbridges as bracelets on a Gypsy's bronzed arms."

​

"In medicine, as in statecraft and propaganda, words are sometimes the most powerful drugs we can use."

​

"Nobody should smoke cigarettes - and smoking with an ulcer is like pouring gasoline on a burning house."

​

"The practice of medicine is a thinker's art the practice of surgery a plumber's."

​

"Here's good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee."

​

"A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession."

​

"A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions."

​

"A man who cannot work without his hypodermic needle is a poor doctor. The amount of narcotic you use is inversely proportional to your skill."

​

"Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice."

​

"Don't confuse hypothesis and theory. The former is a possible explanation; the latter, the correct one. The establishment of theory is the very purpose of science."

​

"Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof."

​

"We humans are the greatest of earth's parasites."

​

"First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef."

​

"When a man lacks mental balance in pneumonia he is said to be delirious. When he lacks mental balance without the pneumonia, he is pronounced insane by all smart doctors."

​

"I find that most men would rather have their bellies opened for five hundred dollars than have a tooth pulled for five."

​

"In diagnosis think of the easy first."

​

"In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science."

​

"Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these - it's a state of mind."

​

"The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty - not marble floors and foundations."

​

"There is only one reason why men become addicted to drugs - they are weak men. Only strong men are cured, and they cure themselves."

​

"Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature."

​

"Whenever ideas fail, men invent words."

​

"You must learn to talk clearly. The jargon of scientific terminology which rolls off your tongues is mental garbage."

​

"A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking."

​

"Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat."

​

"Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them."

​

"Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification."

​

"You can't be what you don't see. I didn't think about being a doctor. I didn't even think about being a clerk in a store, I'd never seen a black clerk in a clothing store."

​

"We really need to get over this love affair with the fetus and start worrying about children."

​

"One billion people in 175 countries will mark Earth Day. That puts tea parties in perspective, doesn't it?"

​

"There are fewer and fewer Republicans."

​

"I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people."