Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. . . . Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert. |
One finger in the throat and one in the rectum makes a good diagnostician. |
One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine |
Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others. |
Save the fleeting minute; learn gracefully to dodge the bore. |
Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows. |
Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants. |
Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity. |
Study until 25, investigate until 40, profession until 60, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance. |
Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature -- subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasurers, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today. . . . The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty. |
Taking a lady's hand gives her confidence in her physician. |
The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well. |
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals. |
The future is today. |
The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease |