The best physician is also a philosopher.

To be great, a surgeon must have a fierce determination to be the leader in his field. He must have a driving ego, a hunger beyond money. He must have a passion for perfectionism. He is like the actor who wants his name in lights.

The superior doctor prevents sickness; The mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; The inferior doctor treats actual sickness.

The person most often late for a doctor's appointment is the doctor himself.

Physicians are rather like undescended testicles, they are difficult to locate and when they are found, they are pretty ineffective.

Often the confidence of the patient in his physician does more for the cure of his disease than the physician with all his remedies.

No physician is really good before he has killed one or two patients.

No physician is really good before he has killed one or two patients.

Medicine is a science, acquiring a practice an art.

Life is short, the Art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult. The physician must be ready, not only to do his duty himself, but also to secure the co-operation of the patient, of the attendants and of externals.

Let the young know they will never find a more interesting, more instructive book than the patient himself.

It is a mathematical fact that fifty percent of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class.

If popular medicine gave the people wisdom as well as knowledge, it would be the best protection for scientific and well-trained physicians.

I wondher why ye can always read a doctor's bill an' ye niver can read his purscription.

Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you, too.

A physician is someone who knows everything and does nothing.
A surgeon is someone who does everything and knows nothing.
A psychiatrist is someone who knows nothing and does nothing.
A pathologist is someone who knows everything and does everything too late.

A physician is an unfortunate gentleman who is every day required to perform a miracle; namely to reconcile health with intemperance.

A doctor is the only man who can suffer from good health.

I don't dawdle. I'm a surgeon. I make an incision, do what needs to be done and sew up the wound. There is a beginning, a middle, and an end.