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.
There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.
One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
Without faith a man can do nothing; with it all things are possible.
Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the true poetry of life.
The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles...
Patients should have rest, food, fresh air, and exercise – the quadrangle of health.
The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.
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 alone you can become expert.
Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaints.