Canadian Physician Quotes

William Osler

Norman Bethune

John McCrae

Gabor Maté (physician)

James Orbinski

Like restless birds, the breath of coming rain
Creeps, lilac-laden, up the village street

It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the most trifling of his works.

I have always believed that the Good Samaritan went across the road to the wounded man just because he wanted to.

Wilfred Grenfell

Stories, we all have stories. Nature does not tell stories, we do. We find ourselves in them, make ourselves in them, choose ourselves in them. If we are the stories we tell ourselves, we had better choose them well.

Medicine, as we are practising it, is a luxury trade. We are selling bread at the price of jewels... Let us take the profit, the private economic profit, out of medicine, and purify our profession of rapacious individualism... Let us say to the people not 'How much have you got?' but 'How best can we serve you?

There is a vast difference between treating effects and adjusting the cause.

Daniel David Palmer

While nervous tension may be a component of stress, one can be stressed without feeling tension.

Gabor Maté (physician)