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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.

Anytime you interfere with a natural process, you're playing God. God determines what happens naturally. That means when a person's ill, he shouldn't go to a doctor because he's asking for interference with God's will. But of course, patients can't think that way.

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.

If you want to get healthy, you just might not want to go to a doctor. You might instead, go to church.

The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed.

There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.

When I use the word 'healing,' by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we're very good at handling, but there's always a sense of the violation. 'Why me?' 'Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else's?' And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.

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

As a Christian Scientist, I don't go to doctors and get diagnoses.

Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.