A man who cannot work without his hypodermic needle is a poor doctor. The amount of narcotic you use is inversely proportional to your skill.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.
The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man.
One of the shortcomings of our medical system is that doctors have very little time with their patients.
Surgeons always underestimate the pain and disability involved in what they do to people.
Medical professionals are as skilled and as dedicated as any, but they operate within a fragmented system that has not progressed as far as we have in aviation.
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.
The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.
A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he must view the man in his world.
He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.
Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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