In diagnosis think of the easy first. |
In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science. |
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. |
None of the great discoveries was made by a 'specialist' or a 'researcher'. |
Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these - it's a state of mind. |
Some day when you have time, look into the business of prayer, amulets, baths and poultices, and discover for yourself how much valuable therapy the profession has cast on the dump. |
The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty - not marble floors and foundations. |
The practice of medicine is a thinker's art the practice of surgery a plumber's. |
We humans are the greatest of earth's parasites. |
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. |
Whenever ideas fail, men invent words. |
You must learn to talk clearly. The jargon of scientific terminology which rolls off your tongues is mental garbage. |