تقتضي كرامة الطبيب أن يبدو سليمًا وممتلئًا بقدر ما أرادته له الطبيعة؛ فعامّة الناس يحسبون من لا يتمتّع بهذه السلامة الجسدية الفضلى عاجزًا عن العناية بنفسه.

“The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.”Hippocrates