Martin H Fischer

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• Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them. Birds
• A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking. Conclusion
• Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat. Down
• A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions. Exceptions
• Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice. Beginning
• Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature. Dictionary
• A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession. Cannot Console
• A man who cannot work without his hypodermic needle is a poor doctor. The amount of narcotic you use is inversely proportional to your skill. Amount
• I find that most men would rather have their bellies opened for five hundred dollars than have a tooth pulled for five. Bellies
• In diagnosis think of the easy first. Diagnosis
• The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty - not marble floors and foundations. All
• When a man lacks mental balance in pneumonia he is said to be delirious. When he lacks mental balance without the pneumonia, he is pronounced… All
• Whenever ideas fail, men invent words. Fail
• You must learn to talk clearly. The jargon of scientific terminology which rolls off your tongues is mental garbage. Clearly
• Follow Descartes! Do not give up the religion of your youth until you get a better one. Better
• Don't confuse hypothesis and theory. The former is a possible explanation; the latter, the correct one. The establishment of theory is the very purpose of… Confuse
• Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof. Despise
• First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef. All
• Here's good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee. Advice
• In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science. Cents
• None of the great discoveries was made by a 'specialist' or a 'researcher'. Discoveries
• Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these - it's a state of mind. Been
• The practice of medicine is a thinker's art the practice of surgery a plumber's. Art
• There is only one reason why men become addicted to drugs - they are weak men. Only strong men are cured, and they cure themselves. Addicted
• We humans are the greatest of earth's parasites. Earth

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