MY FAVORITE QUOTATIONS
'A picture is worth a thousand words'
Anonymous
'Primum non nocere'
Thomas Sydenham
'Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly'
John F. Kennedy
'Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler'
Albert Einstein
'Don't Get Mad, Get Even'
Robert F. Kennedy
'Chance Favours the Prepared Mind'
Louis Pasteur - Invented Pasteurization
“Two things are infinite:
the Universe and the human stupidity
and I am not sure about the Universe”
Albert Einstein
'To cure occasionally
To relieve sometimes
To comfort always'
Louis Pasteur
“It is with heart one sees rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye”
Hippocrates
"Reason is and ought only to be the salve of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them'
David Hume
'An Amateur practices until he gets it right; a professional practices until she can't get it wrong'
Anonymous
'By watching the master and emulating his efforts in the presence of his example, the apprentice unconsciously picks up the rules of the art, including those which are not explicitly known to the master himself'
Michael Polanyi in 'Personal Knowledge: Towards a post-critical Philosophy, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973'
'Non omnia possumus omnes'
(We can't all do everything)
Virgill 70-19 BC Roman poet
'Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts'
Sign on Albert Einstein's study wall at Princeton University
'' With the exception of lawyers, there is no profession which considers itself above the law so widely as the medical profession ''
Samuel Hopkins Adams 1871 – 1958, US journalist and author
The Health Master Ch.1
'' A physician is someone who knows everything and does nothing.
A surgeon is someone who does everything and knows nothing.
A psychiatrist is someone who knows nothing and does nothing.
A pathologist is someone who knows everything and does everything too late ''
Anonymous
'' A surgeon should give as little pain as possible while he is treating the patient, and no pain at all when he charges his fee ''
‘FRCS’ in The Times, quoted by Reginald Pound in Harley Street. Michael Joseph, London (1967)
'' Fifty years ago the successful doctor was said to need three things; a top hat to give him Authority, a paunch to give him Dignity, and piles to give him an Anxious Expression ''
Anonymous, Lancet I: 169 (1951)
''An adult is one who has ceased to grow vertically but not horizontally ''
Anonymous
''A consultant is a man sent in after the battle to bayonet the wounded ''
Anonymous
"There is no short cut, nor ‘royal road’ to the attainment of medical knowledge"
John Abernethy 1764 - 1831, English Surgeon, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London
Hunterian Oration (1819)
''A clinician is complex. He is part craftsman, part practical scientist, and part historian"
Thomas Addis 1881 - 1949, US physician, San Francisco
Glomerular Nephritis, Diagnosis and Treatment Ch. 5
"To study the phenomenon of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all"
Sir William Osler
“We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart”
J.G. Lockhart (August 1825), quoted in Lockhart’s Life of Sir Walter Scott, vol 7 (1837), ch 2.
Anonymous
'Primum non nocere'
Thomas Sydenham
'Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly'
John F. Kennedy
'Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler'
Albert Einstein
'Don't Get Mad, Get Even'
Robert F. Kennedy
'Chance Favours the Prepared Mind'
Louis Pasteur - Invented Pasteurization
“Two things are infinite:
the Universe and the human stupidity
and I am not sure about the Universe”
Albert Einstein
'To cure occasionally
To relieve sometimes
To comfort always'
Louis Pasteur
“It is with heart one sees rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye”
Hippocrates
"Reason is and ought only to be the salve of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them'
David Hume
'An Amateur practices until he gets it right; a professional practices until she can't get it wrong'
Anonymous
'By watching the master and emulating his efforts in the presence of his example, the apprentice unconsciously picks up the rules of the art, including those which are not explicitly known to the master himself'
Michael Polanyi in 'Personal Knowledge: Towards a post-critical Philosophy, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973'
'Non omnia possumus omnes'
(We can't all do everything)
Virgill 70-19 BC Roman poet
'Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts'
Sign on Albert Einstein's study wall at Princeton University
'' With the exception of lawyers, there is no profession which considers itself above the law so widely as the medical profession ''
Samuel Hopkins Adams 1871 – 1958, US journalist and author
The Health Master Ch.1
'' A physician is someone who knows everything and does nothing.
A surgeon is someone who does everything and knows nothing.
A psychiatrist is someone who knows nothing and does nothing.
A pathologist is someone who knows everything and does everything too late ''
Anonymous
'' A surgeon should give as little pain as possible while he is treating the patient, and no pain at all when he charges his fee ''
‘FRCS’ in The Times, quoted by Reginald Pound in Harley Street. Michael Joseph, London (1967)
'' Fifty years ago the successful doctor was said to need three things; a top hat to give him Authority, a paunch to give him Dignity, and piles to give him an Anxious Expression ''
Anonymous, Lancet I: 169 (1951)
''An adult is one who has ceased to grow vertically but not horizontally ''
Anonymous
''A consultant is a man sent in after the battle to bayonet the wounded ''
Anonymous
"There is no short cut, nor ‘royal road’ to the attainment of medical knowledge"
John Abernethy 1764 - 1831, English Surgeon, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London
Hunterian Oration (1819)
''A clinician is complex. He is part craftsman, part practical scientist, and part historian"
Thomas Addis 1881 - 1949, US physician, San Francisco
Glomerular Nephritis, Diagnosis and Treatment Ch. 5
"To study the phenomenon of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all"
Sir William Osler
“We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart”
J.G. Lockhart (August 1825), quoted in Lockhart’s Life of Sir Walter Scott, vol 7 (1837), ch 2.
'In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
Big Brother is watching you'
George Orwell
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
Big Brother is watching you'
George Orwell
ARABIC PROVERBS
" He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything"
" No man is a good physician who has never been sick "
" Love and pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid "
" For most diagnoses all that is needed is an ounce of knowledge, an ounce of intelligence, and a pound of thoroughness "
" He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything"
" No man is a good physician who has never been sick "
" Love and pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid "
" For most diagnoses all that is needed is an ounce of knowledge, an ounce of intelligence, and a pound of thoroughness "