The hardest conviction to get into the mind of a beginner is that the education upon which he is engaged is not a college course, not a medical cours….

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine..

Gentlemen, I have a confession to make. Half of what we have taught you is in error, and furthermore we cannot tell you which half it is.

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….

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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….

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….

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 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….

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 ….

Advice is sought to confirm a position already taken..

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

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….

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

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