Quit worrying about your health. It’ll go away.
The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
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 course, but a life course, for which the work of a few years under teachers is but a preparation.
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 or despair. In danger, in adversity, cling to your principles and ideals. Aequanimitas!
The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.
Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the disease and once from the medicine.
The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.
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.
It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.
Now the way of life that I preach is a habit to be acquired gradually by long and steady repetition. It is the practice of living for the day only, and for the day’s work.
It cannot be too often or too forcibly brought home to us that the hope of the profession is with the men who do its daily work in general practice.
Patients rarely die of the disease from which they suffer. Secondary or terminal infections are the real cause of death.
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.
There are only two sorts of doctors; those who practise with their brains, and those who practise with their tongues.
The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.
One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.