I would like to see the day when somebody would be appointed surgeon somewhere who had no hands, for the operative part is the least part of the work.

I would like to see the day when somebody would be appointed surgeon somewhere who had no hands, for the operative part is the least part of the work.

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.

In these days when science is clearly in the saddle and when our knowledge of disease is advancing at a breathless pace, we are apt to forget that not all can ride and that he also serves who waits and who applies what the horseman discovers.

A certain excessiveness seems a necessary element in all greatness.

There is only one ultimate and effectual preventative for the maladies to which flesh is heir, and that is death.

Standardization of our educational systems [which includes testing]is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up.