Shut Out All Of Your Past Except

Humanity Has But Three Great Enemies: Fever, Famine, And War; Of These By Far The Greatest, By Far The Most Terrible, Is Fever.

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.

A Physician Who Treats Himself Has A Fool For A Patient.

To Have A Group Of Cloistered Clinicians Away Completely From The Broad Current Of Professional Life Would Be Bad For Teacher And Worse For Student. The Primary Work Of A Professor Of Medicine In A Medical School Is In The Wards, Teaching His Pupils How To Deal With Patients And Their Diseases.

Observe, Record, Tabulate, Communicate. Use Your Five Senses. Learn To See, Learn To Hear, Learn To Feel, Learn To Smell, And Know That By Practice Alone You Can Become Expert.