Advice is sought to confirm a position already taken..

Listen to your patient, he is telling you the diagnosis..

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease..

The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the disease and once from the medicine..

If it were not for the great variability among individuals, medicine might as well be a science, not an art..

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day absorb all your interest, energy and enthusiasm. The best preparation for tomorrow is to….

Care more for the individual patient than for the special features of the disease. . . . Put yourself in his place . . . The kindly word, the cheerfu….

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely..

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability..

The practice of medicine will be very much as you make it - to one a worry, a care, a perpetual annoyance; to another, a daily job and a life of as m….

He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all..

The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head..

Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom. Let not your conceptions of disease come from words heard in the lecture room or read fr….

It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has..

The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases..

Be calm and strong and patient. Meet failure and disappointment with courage. Rise superior to the trials of life, and never give in to hopelessness ….

A physician who treats himself has a fool for a patient..

Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke wit….

There are three classes of human beings: men, women and women physicians..

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 a….

The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head. O….