Medical quotations
1. The education of the doctor which goes on after he has his degree is, after all, the most important part of his education.
2. The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books....
3. The student begins with the patient, continues with the patient, and ends his studies with the patient, using books and lectures as tools, as means to an end.
4. The most essential part of a student's instruction is obtained...not in the lecture-room, but at the bedside. Nothing seen there is lost; the rhythms of disease are learned by frequent repetition; its unforeseen occurences stamp themselves indelibly in the memory
5. ...a peculiar thing in medicine is that we never believe anything unless it can be demonstrated in animals