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The air of caricature never fails to show itself in the products of reason applied relentlessly and without correction. The observation of clinical facts would…

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The first [quality] to be named must always be the power of attention, of giving one's whole mind to the patient without…
If mankind is to profit freely from the small and sporadic crop of the heroically gifted it produces, it will have to…
The truly scientific mind is altogether unafraid of the new, and while having no mercy for ideas which have served their turn…
It is sometimes asserted that a surgical operation is or should be a work of art ... fit to rank with those…
The air of caricature never fails to show itself in the products of reason applied relentlessly and without correction. The observation of…
The ordinary patient goes to his doctor because he is in pain or some other discomfort and wants to be comfortable again;…
An event experienced is an event perceived, digested, and assimilated into the substance of our being, and the ratio between the number…
It is necessary to guard ourselves from thinking that the practice of the scientific method enlarges the powers of the human mind.…
The second thing to be striven for is intuition. This sounds an impossibility, for who can control that small quiet monitor? But…
The fundamental activity of medical science is to determine the ultimate causation of disease.
The various systems of doctrine that have held dominion over man have been demonstrated to be true beyond all question by rationalists…
The dispassionate intellect, the open mind, the unprejudiced observer, exist in an exact sense only in a sort of intellectualist folk-lore; states…

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Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The air of caricature never fails to show itself in the products of reason applied relentlessly and without correction. The observation of… — Wilfred Trotter
A good conscience will be found a pleasant visitor at our bedside in a dying hour. — J C Ryle
For those of us who have been diagnosed with cancer, time is a precious commodity. The time and distance from the scientist's… — Larry Lucchino
When she woke briefly during her last illness and found all her family around her bedside: "Am I dying or is this… — Nancy Astor
Waking up each morning to a hysterical alarm clock on the bedside table. — Paulo Coelho
I remember nothing of this, no ambulance rides, nothing. Nothing between switching out the bedside lamp and the sudden indignity of rebirth:… — Stephen Fry
But I know somebody who has a bedside urinal. How do I compete with that? — Lara Flynn Boyle
In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician, but of the man with the best bedside… — Eric Ambler
Keep a note pad and pencil on your bedside table. Million-dollar ideas sometimes strike at 3 A.M. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I started my career as a surgeon 25 years ago. But it turned out that I am not talented as a surgeon,… — Shinya Yamanaka
Tread softly as you draw near to the bedside of a dying man, for the space around him is holy ground. Speak… — Jennifer Worth

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