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Although I completed two years of internship in various small hospitals, I decided against continuing my medical training. I was much more fascinated by the unsolved problems of medicine than by practicing it.
The essence of the expert is that his field shall be very special and narrow: one of the ways in which he inspires confidence is to rigidly limit himself to the little toe; he would scarcely venture an off-the-record opinion on an infected little finger.
No matter what measures are taken, doctors will sometimes falter, and it isn't reasonable to ask that we achieve perfection. What is reasonable is to ask that we never cease to aim for it.
Avoid studies of which the result dies with the worker.
Let a man practice the profession which he best knows.
The professional cannot allow the actions of others to define his reality.
Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the earliest records of every culture on earth. It is hard to think of a more dependable or enduring occupation, harder still to imagine any future events leading to its extinction.
... growing a little tiresome on account of some mysterious internal discomfort that the local practitioner diagnosed as imagination
Who paies the Physitian, does the cure.
Medicine is not a science; it is empiricism founded on a network of blunders.
The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books
The professionals must set a good example.
What clinical lectures I will give in heaven, demonstrating the ignorance of doctors!
A professional is one who believes he has invented breathing.
To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result.
Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
Medicine is not merely a science but an art. The character of the physician may act more powerfully upon the patient than the drugs employed.
The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
Management of outcomes may not be any more than a skill. It does not require knowledge.
There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by what he said but by what he did, that there is an intimate relation between curing and caring.
the line between what clinicians can do well and what they cannot do at all well is not obvious, and certainly not obvious to them.
When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.
There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine.
We will get growth and affordability in health care not by replicating the expertise of today's physicians in the form of new physicians. We will get it by embodying their expertise in devices and equipment, so expertise becomes widely available, more affordable, and much easier to obtain. This
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature takes its course. - Voltaire
Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.
A careful physician ... before he attempts to administer a remedy to his patient, must investigate not only the malady of the man he wishes to cure, but also his habits when in health, and his physical constitution.
We are spending most of our time in American health care fixing the mistakes that either we in the profession are causing or our patients are, without recognizing it, causing to themselves.
The amateur doesn't appreciate the need for experimentation. He wants his experts to know.
The best physician is he who can distinguish the possible from the impossible.
Many medical students, like most American patients, confuse science and technology. They think that what it means to be a scientific doctor is to bring to bear the maximum amount of technology on any given patient. And this makes them dangerous.
No practice exists in isolation.
We do not accost a physician as we do any mere nobody; nor a magistrate as we do a private individual. We try to get some advantage from the skill of the one and the position of the other. Walk in the sun, and your shadow will follow you, whether you will or not.
I'm a doctor of cowshit, pigshit, and chickenshit ... when you doctors figure out what you want, you'll find me out in the barn shoveling my thesis.
Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
The physician who knows only medicine, knows not even medicine.
Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.
Common sense is in medicine the master workman.
Medical judgment can be taught - laboriously, in long periods of training - but it cannot be neatly handed over as the occasion demands it. It is the irreplaceable and untransferable contribution that the healer makes to the suffering individual who would be healed.
In quixotically trying to conquer death doctors all too frequently do no good for their patients' "ease" but at the same time they do harm instead by prolonguing and even magnifying patients' dis-ease.
There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman.
Very few [doctors] are men of science in any very serious sense; they're men of technique.
the art of life, mostly, the art of avoiding pain
Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician.
Dontopedalogy is the science of opening your mouth and putting your foot in it, which I've practised for many years.
To keep from going stale you must forget your professional outlook and rediscover the virginal eye of the amateur.
ascetic practices.
Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.
If the clinician, as observer, wishes to see things as they really are, he must make a tabula rasa of his mind and proceed without any preconceived notions whatever.
Specialists can never practice their specialties too much. The danger is in not practicing enough. Make that mistake, and soon you may not be in the specialty business anymore.
We now live in the era of the super-specialist - of clinicians who have taken the time to practice at one narrow thing until they can do it better than anyone who hasn't.
Pragmatism is an intellectually safe but ultimately sterile philosophy.
Many of us are alarmed at the skyrocketing cost of medical care, including patients, who are the consumers. However, medical malpractice is not the reason for these increasing costs.
Experience stands on its own dunghill in medicine, and reason yields it place. Medicine has always professed experience to be the touchstone of its operations.
A physician is one who pours drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less.
[Alternative medicine is defined as] that set of practices that cannot be tested, refuse to be tested or consistently fail tests.
He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all
Sincere practice, makes the impossible possible.
Even books are nurses, medicines are nurses. But we must work to bring about the time when man shall recognise his mastery over his own body. Herbs and medicines have power over us as long as we allow them; when we become strong, these external methods are no more necessary.
As I am not fond of giving advice,having seldom seen it taken
Our great struggle in medicine these days is not just with ignorance and uncertainty. It's also with complexity: how much you have to make sure you have in your head and think about. There are a thousand ways things can go wrong.
Who taught you all this, doctor?"
The reply came promptly:
"Suffering.
So modern 'pothecaries, taught the art By doctor's bills to play the doctor's part, Bold in the practice of mistaken rules, Prescribe, apply, and call their masters fools.
Medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to our aid, the chances are that we may be relying on a scientific truth the error of which will be recognized in a few years time.
The best prescription is knowledge.
Practice means cutting down chance and risk.
Teaching should not be confused with personal practice.
Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence.
The malpractice for advice-giving is like five times as much as a craniotomy.
All our lives, we've been taught to defer to experts: teachers, doctors, and investment "professionals." But ultimately, expertise is about results. You can have the fanciest degrees from the fanciest schools, but if you can't perform what you were hired to do, your expertise is meaningless. In
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A respect for authority is the basis for most medical education. Students may become so used to memorising that they become prey to the illusion that the reason for learning to parrot lectures and textbooks is that they are the 'truth'.
The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy.
It is a technique ideally suited to prevent physical and mental illness and to protect the body generally, developing an inevitable sense of self-reliance and assurance.
Today's literature: prescriptions written by patients.
The practice of medicine is a thinker's art the practice of surgery a plumber's.
Practise in everything a certain nonchalance that shall conceal design and show that what is done and said is done without effort and almost without thought.
There are only two sorts of doctors; those who practise with their brains, and those who practise with their tongues.
We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above their nurses instructions, our knowledge must rest concealed and be as useless to the world as gold in the mine.
The claim of alternative practitioners to not treat disease labels but the whole patient ... allows alternative practitioners to live in a fool's paradise of quackery where they believe themselves to be protected from any challenges and demands for evidence.
As far as physicians go, chance is more valuable than knowledge.
our professions, as presently organized, often discourage self-help, self-discovery, and self-reliance;
We need practice to get good at what we do. There is one difference in medicine, though: it is people we practice upon.
Let us show the world that a difference of opinion upon medical subjects is not incompatible with medical friendships; and in so doing, let us throw the whole odium of the hostility of physicians to each other upon their competition for business and money.
Medicine is not about conquering diseases and death, but about the alleviation of suffering, minimising harm, smoothing the painful journey of man to the grave.
The three most dangerous words in medicine: in my experience.
In all technai or arts (medicine perhaps most of all), there is a self-exhilaration on the part of the practitioner (the intoxication of the ego with its own potency) which is infectious: the patient enjoys a placebo-effect which redounds to the ego of the "artist."
Practice is an ever-fresh, challenging flow of work and play in which we continually test and demolish our own delusions; therefore, it is sometimes painful.
Our role is to develop techniques that allow us to provide emergency life-saving procedures to injured patients in an extreme, remote environment without the presence of a physician.
My lectures were highly esteemed, but I am of opinion my operations rather kept down my practice, than increased it.
But on those Friday afternoons, ambition did not spread its wings to embrace the study of medicine. We all wanted to be masters like our teachers. Their life appeared to be so enjoyable. All they had to do was learn the lessons set, by heart, and sit and hear boys repeat them by rote.
The modern mind is hard to please; and it generally calls the way of Godfrey ferocious and the way of Francis fanatical. That is, it calls any moral method unpractical, when it has just called any practical method immoral.
The ideal doctor is patient.
Do not consider anything for your interest which makes you break your word, quit your modesty or inclines you to any practice which will not bear the light or look the world in the face.
Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art.
No class in physical therapy school prepared me to counsel a patient dealing with a life-changing injury.
Though fancy may be the patient's complaint, necessity is often the doctor's.
Internists know everything but do nothing; surgeons know nothing but do everything; psychiatrists know nothing and do nothing; and pathologists know everything and do everything, but it is too late.