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Standardization of our...
Standardization of our educational systems is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by...
The capacity of...
The capacity of man himself is only revealed when, under stress and responsibility, he breaks through his educational...
In these days...
In these days when science is clearly in the saddle and when our knowledge of disease is advancing at a breathless...
A physician is...
A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man -- he must view the man...
I would like...
I would like to see the day when somebody would be appointed surgeon somewhere who had no hands, for the operative...
Given one well-trained...
Given one well-trained physician of the highest type he will do better work for a thousand people than ten...
A specialist is...
A specialist is a man who knows more and more about less and less.
Source: Also...
The examining physician...
The examining physician often hesitates to make the necessary examination because it involves soiling the...
Lord, deliver me...
Lord, deliver me from the man who never makes a mistake, and also from the man who makes the same mistake...
The aim of...
The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a...
There is no...
There is no short cut, nor royal road, to the attainment of medical knowledge. The path which we have to pursue is...
We must adopt...
We must adopt loathsome diseases for our familiar associates, or we shall never be thoroughly acquainted with their...
Pray, Mr. Abernethy,...
Pray, Mr. Abernethy, what is a cure for gout?' was the question of an indolent and luxurious citizen. 'Live upon...
Why, Madam, do...
Why, Madam, do you know there are upward of thirty yards of bowels squeezed underneath that girdle of your daughter's?...
Private patients, if...
Private patients, if they do not like me, can go elsewhere; but the poor devils in the hospital I am bound to take...
If the poor...
If the poor overweight jogger only knew how far he had to run to work off the calories in a crust of bread he might...
It is infinitely...
It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it to be devoured by worms.
I don't believe...
I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we...
Suffering isn't ennobling,...
Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.
Source: In NY Times, 28 Apr 1985.
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The prime goal...
The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering,...
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