The ordinary patient goes to his doctor because he is in pain or some other discomfort and wants to be comfortable again; he is not in pursuit of the ideal of health in any direct sense. The doctor on the… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share Image
The first [quality] to be named must always be the power of attention, of giving one's whole mind to the patient without the interposition… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share
If mankind is to profit freely from the small and sporadic crop of the heroically gifted it produces, it will have to cultivate the… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share
The air of caricature never fails to show itself in the products of reason applied relentlessly and without correction. The observation of clinical facts… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share
“The mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with similar energy. It would not… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share
The mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with similar energy. It would not… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share
The dispassionate intellect, the open mind, the unprejudiced observer, exist in an exact sense only in a sort of intellectualist folk-lore; states even approaching… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share
If we watch ourselves honestly we shall often find that we have begun to argue against a new idea even before it has been… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share
It is necessary to guard ourselves from thinking that the practice of the scientific method enlarges the powers of the human mind. Nothing is… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share
The truly scientific mind is altogether unafraid of the new, and while having no mercy for ideas which have served their turn or shown… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share
It is sometimes asserted that a surgical operation is or should be a work of art ... fit to rank with those of the… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share
It was not noisy prejudice that caused the work of Mendel to lie dead for thirty years, but the sheer inability of contemporary opinion… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share
The second thing to be striven for is intuition. This sounds an impossibility, for who can control that small quiet monitor? But intuition is… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share
The fundamental activity of medical science is to determine the ultimate causation of disease. — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share
The ordinary patient goes to his doctor because he is in pain or some other discomfort and wants to be comfortable again; he is… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share
