Definition of Physician

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Physician

A person skilled in physic, or the art of healing; one duty authorized to prescribe remedies for, and treat, diseases; a doctor of medicine.

Hence, figuratively, one who ministers to moral diseases; as, a physician of the soul.

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Physician Quotations

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
Kahlil Gibran

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
William Osler

The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
William Osler

The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.
William Osler

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
William Osler

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.
Frank Lloyd Wright

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
Ambrose Bierce

A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
Hippocrates

The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants.
Jack Kevorkian

Physician Translations

physician in Afrikaans is dokter
physician in Dutch is medicus, dokter, arts, geneesheer
physician in German is Mediziner {m}, Arzt {m}, Arzt {m}
physician in Latin is medicus
physician in Norwegian is dokter, lege

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