A man who cannot work without his hypodermic needle is a poor doctor. The amount of narcotic you use is inversely proportional to your skill. |
Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these - it's a state of mind. |
In diagnosis think of the easy first. |
None of the great discoveries was made by a 'specialist' or a 'researcher'. |
There is only one reason why men become addicted to drugs - they are weak men. Only strong men are cured, and they cure themselves. |
A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession. |
Whenever ideas fail, men invent words. |
When a man lacks mental balance in pneumonia he is said to be delirious. When he lacks mental balance without the pneumonia, he is pronounced insane by all smart doctors. |
Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature. |
The practice of medicine is a thinker's art the practice of surgery a plumber's. |
Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice. |
You must learn to talk clearly. The jargon of scientific terminology which rolls off your tongues is mental garbage. |
Here's good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee. |
A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions. |
Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof. |
We humans are the greatest of earth's parasites. |
In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science. |
The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty - not marble floors and foundations. Topics: Education |
First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef. |
I find that most men would rather have their bellies opened for five hundred dollars than have a tooth pulled for five. |