March 30 was designated as National Doctor's Day, giving patients the opportunity to take the time to recognize medicine's leaders.
Here are five quotes to honor physicians.
"Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"What I call a good patient is one who, having found a good physician, sticks to him till he dies."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease."
William Osler
"The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy — to heal, as it is termed."
Samuel Hahnemann
"Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer."
George Herbert
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