National Doctors’ Day 2022: 16 Inspirational Quotes To Thank Your Favorite Physicians

Whether you have needed stitches or had the worst case of the flu, chances are you visited a doctor who was able to assist you with your condition. On Wednesday, National Doctor’s Day will offer the perfect opportunity to honor medical professionals for their dedication and contribution to society.

The day dedicated to honoring doctors was created by Eudora Brown Almond, the wife of Dr. Charles B. Almond. It is observed on March 30, which coincides with the anniversary of the first time a doctor used anesthesia on a patient in 1842.

The first Doctors’ Day was actually held until March 30, 1933, in Winder, Georgia, by the Barrow County Alliance. In celebration of National Doctors’ Day and all of the selfless physicans, check out these inspirational quotes about medicine:

“Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.” ― Hippocrates

“Always laugh when you can, it is cheap medicine.” ― Lord Byron

“Medicines can cure diseases, but only doctors can cure patients.” ― Carl Jung

“He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.” ― Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.” ― Voltaire

“The purpose of the doctor or any human, in general, should not be to simply delay the death of the patient but to increase the quality of life.” ― Patch Adams

“You really can change the world if you care enough.” ― Marian Wright Edelman

“It’s true that laughter really is cheap medicine. It’s a prescription anyone can afford. And best of all, you can fill it right now.” ― Steve Goodier

“Medicine is only for those who cannot imagine doing anything else.” ― Luanda Grazette

“Life is choices, and they are relentless. No sooner have you made one choice than another is upon you.” ― Atul Gawande

“A good physician treats the disease, a great physician treats the patient who has the disease.” ― William Osler

“The physician's duty is no to stave off death or return patients to their old lives but to take into our arms a patient and family whose lives have disintegrated and work until they can stand back up and face, and make sense of, their own existence.” ― Paul Kalanithi

“The most exquisite pleasure in the practice of medicine comes from nudging a layman in the direction of terror, then bringing him back to safety again.” ― Kurt Vonnegut

“Observation, reason, human understanding, courage, these make the physician.” ― Martin Fischer

“Surely you couldn’t be a good doctor and a terrible human being---surely the laws of man, if not God, didn’t allow it.” ― Abraham Verghese

“There has never been a doctor who served many patients who despite their best efforts did not lose some of them to death. But they understood that was a part of life itself.” ― Zig Ziglar