Medical education is not just a program for building knowledge and skills in its recipients... it is also an experience which creates attitudes and expectations.
The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient. - Abraham Flexner
The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.
- Abraham Flexner
The real enemy is the man who tries to mold the human spirit so that it will not dare to spread its wings. - Abraham Flexner
The real enemy is the man who tries to mold the human spirit so that it will not dare to spread its wings.
We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent or self-satisfied; they are, if… - Abraham Flexner
We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent or self-satisfied; they are, if…
Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them. - Abraham Flexner
Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.
Mathematicians, like cows in the dark, all look alike to me. - Abraham Flexner
Mathematicians, like cows in the dark, all look alike to me.
The new naval treaty permits the United States to spend a billion dollars on warships-a sum greater than has been accumulated by all our endowed inst… - Abraham Flexner
The new naval treaty permits the United States to spend a billion dollars on warships-a sum greater than has been accumulated by all our endowed inst…
A patient had a 50-50 chance of benefiting from visiting a physician as of 1910. Medicine was more like voodoo than science until the 20th Century. - Abraham Flexner
A patient had a 50-50 chance of benefiting from visiting a physician as of 1910. Medicine was more like voodoo than science until the 20th Century.
Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for b… - Abraham Flexner
Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for b…
Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking ... Institutions of… - Abraham Flexner
Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking ... Institutions of…
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