As if you would call a physician, that is thought good for the cure of the disease you complain of but is Bacon unacquainted with your body, and therefore may put you in the way for a present cure but overthroweth your health in some other kind; and so cure the disease and kill the patient.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Essays, no.27,'Of Friendship'.

Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there?

-Bible (Old Testament)
Jeremiah 8:22.

Honoura physicianwiththehonourdueuntohim for the uses whichye may have of him: for the Lord hath created him. For of the most High cometh healing, and he shall receive honour of the king. 108

-Bible (Apocrypha)
Ecclesiasticus 38:1^2.

But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them,They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.But go ye and learnwhat that meaneth,Iwill have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew 9:12^13.

   When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them,They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. 114

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Mark 2:17.

And he said unto them,Ye will surely say unto me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Luke 4:23.

Time is the great physician.

-Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
  Henrietta Temple, bk.6, ch.9.

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

-Osler, Sir William
Collected in W B Bean (ed) Sir William Osler:  Aphorisms from His Bedside Teachings and Writings (1950).

Outsidetheir laboratories, thephysicianand chemist are soldiers without arms on the field of battle.

-Pasteur, Louis
Some Reflections on Science in France, pt.1.

Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician.

-Prior, Matthew
  'The RemedyWorse than the Disease'.

Physician art thou?öone, all eyes, Philosopher!öa fingering slave, One that would peep and botanize Upon his mother's grave?

-Wordsworth,William
  'A Poet's Epitaph', stanza 5 (published1800).

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines.

-Wright, Frank Lloyd
  In the NewYorkTimes, 4 Oct.