William James Mayo Quotes
- The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician.
- Given one well-trained physician of the highest type and he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.
- The examining physician often hesitates to make the necessary examination because it involves soiling the finger.
- The glory of medicine is that it is constantly moving forward, that there is always more to learn. The ills of today do not cloud…
- Experience hobbles progress and leads to abandonment of difficult problems; it encourages the initiated to walk on the shady side of the street in the…
- Experience is the great teacher; unfortunately, experience leaves mental scars, and scar tissue contracts.
- Unfortunately, only a small number of patients with peptic ulcer are financially able to make a pet of an ulcer.