Kent Brantly

Losing so many patients certainly was difficult, but it didn't make me feel like a failure as a physician, because I had learned that there was so much more to being a physician than curing illness. That's not the most important thing we do. The most important thing we do is enter into the suffering of others.

American

Ken Jeong

Medicine really matured me as a person because, as a physician, you're obviously dealing with life and death issues, issues much more serious than what we're talking about in entertainment. You can't get more serious than life and death. And if you can handle that, you can handle anything.

American Actor

Joanna Garcia

It's so important to have a great relationship with your physician. It's one of those essential relationships that I find to be as important to nurture as any other relationship in your life. Without your health, you have nothing.

American Actress

Myron Rolle

Football helped me tremendously, and that's why I want the sport to stay because it's so valuable. It's helped me be a better physician today, certainly. I've learned discipline. I've learned focus, teamwork, communication.

Bahamian Athlete

Richard Carmona

As a father, physician and nurse, I have a special place in my heart for children, and I know the brief window of opportunity we have to teach them simple lessons that can lead to a lifetime of good health.

American Public Servant

Samuel Wilson

I would say to young physicians that the more you intentionally improve the lives of the people in the community you serve the better your life will be and the greater your value will be to the community.

Andrew Weil

Insurance companies, whether private or government owned, must be compelled to pay for health-promoting measures. In turn, this will encourage physicians to offer such treatments in earnest.

American Scientist

Margaret Cuomo

Imagine the progress that could be made by gathering together the world's scientists, engineers, physicians, oncologists, epidemiologists and more in a super-team effort to end cancer.

American Celebrity

Laurel Clark

As a physician, I understand how important it is to collect data on people so we can understand what's happening with them. I will be in the position to help enable that knowledge.

American Astronaut

Jeff Merkley

We can have the best health insurance options in the world, and people still won't get needed care if we don't increase our supply of primary care physicians and nurses.

American Politician

Physician is a formal word used when talking about a medical professional.

Professional Term

A physician typically refers to doctors who do not perform surgery.

Not a Surgeon

Physicians can have specializations, which is reflected in collocations like 'cardiac physician'.

Specialization Notation

 had observed that the best memorizers in his class had the most prominent eyes and decided that this was due to higher development in the adjacent part of the brain. As a physician, Gall went on to establish the study of phrenology, which held that strong mental faculties corresponded to

The great brain debate -...

 he heard a dairy maid say, "I shall never have smallpox, for I have had cowpox. I shall never have an ugly, pockmarked face." Cowpox is a skin disease that resembles smallpox and infects cows. Later on, as a physician, he realized that she was right, women who got cowpox didn't develop

How we conquered the...

 True to the tenets of palliative care, I function as something of a reflective advocate, as much as prescribing physician. Quick palliative care -- a very important field but poorly understood -- while it includes, it is not limited to end of life care. It is not limited to hospice.

What really matters at...

 became known throughout the land. He grew rich and famous, casting off the hardships of his early life. When the king fell ill, he summoned the famous physician to treat him. The doctor swept into the palace, ready to show off his skills. But when he entered the king’s chamber,

The tale of the doctor...

 It's a care model that tells the truth and engages one-on-one and meets people where they're at. I'd like to start by telling the story of my very first patient. It was my first day as a physician, with the long white coat I stumbled into the hospital

What we can do to die...

 I was called down to the ward to see him. His is the little hand. I was called down to the ward to see him by a respiratory physician. He said, "Look, there's a guy down here. He's got pneumonia, and he looks like he needs intensive care.

Peter Saul: Let's talk...

 prenatal checkups would be at every stage of the pregnancy I saw my midwives regularly up to the delivery and met the backroom physician on my tour of the hospital birthing center I had a support system in place I was lucky I knew how I

Caring for maternal...

 point the defense department's advanced research branch and they went in there and they equipped indonesian physicians with gene sequencing and they worked hard to to upgrade so that they were independent of the west independent

Stopping Pandemics, An...

 If you go all the way back to Hippocrates, physicians believed that orgasm in women was not just helpful for conception, but necessary. Doctors back then were routinely telling men the importance of pleasuring their wives.

Mary Roach: 10 things...

 I think there's an instinctive collaboration and can happen among physicians sometimes it's actually quite liberating starting with with a vocal we have all sort of our melodic concepts of