Patients rarely die of the disease from which they suffer. Secondary or terminal infections are the real cause of death.

The practice of medicine will be very much as you make it - to one a worry, a care, a perpetual annoyance; to another, a daily job and a life of as much happiness and usefulness as can well fall to the lot of man, because it is a life of self-sacrifice and of countless opportunities to comfort and help the weak-hearted, and to raise up those that fall.

Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.

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

Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility.

It is not... That some people do not know what to do with truth when it is offered to them, But the tragic fate is to reach, after patient search, a condition of mind-blindness, in which. The truth is not recognized, though it stares you in the face.

The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.