Now of the difficulties bound up with the public in which we doctors work, I hesitate to speak in a mixed audience. Common sense in matters medical is rare, and is usually in inverse ratio to the degree of education.

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.

It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.

Beware of people who call you 'Doc.' They rarely pay their bills.

Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity.

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

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.