Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.
Patients should have rest, food, fresh air, and exercise - the quadrangle of health.
The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head. Often the best part of your work will have nothing to do with potions and powders, but with the exercise of an influence of the strong upon the weak, of the righteous upon the wicked, of the wise upon the foolish.
The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
Listen to your patient, he is telling you the diagnosis.
Care more for the individual patient than for the special features of the disease. . . . Put yourself in his place. . . The kindly word, the cheerful greeting, the sympathetic look - these the patient understands.
It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.
I have noticed bakers with swelled hands, and painful, too; in fact the hands of all such workers become much thickened by the constant pressure of kneading the dough.
It's a terrible thing to be a worker exploited in the capitalist system. The only worse thing is to be a worker unable to find anyone to exploit you.
I enjoy the freedom of the blank page.
No matter how safe and lovely your harbour is, leave it to see the insecure and the ugly one; only then you can reach the truth!