The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
We doctors have always been a simple trusting folk. Did we not believe Galen implicitly for 1500 years and Hippocrates for more than 2000?
Nothing is life is more wonderful than faith.
Every patient you see is a lesson in much more than the malady from which he suffers.
If it were not for the great variability among individuals, medicine might as well be a science, not an art.
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.