In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.

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Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof.

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The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty - not marble floors and foundations.

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Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these - it's a state of mind.

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You must learn to talk clearly. The jargon of scientific terminology which rolls off your tongues is mental garbage.

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I find that most men would rather have their bellies opened for five hundred dollars than have a tooth pulled for five.

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Here's good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee.

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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.

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First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef.

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There is only one reason why men become addicted to drugs - they are weak men. Only strong men are cured, and they cure themselves.

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