Too often a sister puts all her patients back to bed as a housewife puts all her plates back in the plate-rack-to make a generally tidy appearance.

Gynaecologists are very smooth indeed. Because they have to listen to woeful and sordid symptoms they develop an expression of refinement and sympathy.

Too often a sister puts all her patients back to bed as a housewife puts all her plates back in the plate-rack-to make a generally tidy appearance.

The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can’t.

For many doctors the achievement of a published article is a tedious duty to be surmounted as a necessary hurdle in a medical career.

Despair is better treated with hope, not dope.

It is not always worth the discomforts of major surgery to get minor recovery.