“The entrance of women into the profession of medicine is an event of importance – not only to the medical profession but to humanity and society… And whenever the history of women in medicine is written, it will begin with the name of Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell.”

William H. Welch, MD, Dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

“The more complicated the surgical case, the simpler the anesthesia.”

Anonymous

“Let food by thy medicine and medicine by thy food”

Hippocrates


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“…whenever in the course of my life I have come across … truly
saintly embodiments of practical charity, they have generally had the
cheerful, practical, brusque and unemotioned air of a busy surgeon,
the sort of face in which one can discern no commiseration, no
tenderness at the sight of suffering humanity, no fear of hurting it,
the impassive, unsympathetic, sublime face of true goodness.”

Marcel Proust – French author in Swann’s Way


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“Civilization is… encumbered with those who should be dead: the weak, the diseased, and the fools.”

Dr. Alex Carrel, pioneering French surgeon of the early 1900s and winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine

“From the date of my first successful case of blood transfusion (August 8, 1906) by an end-to-end suturing of vessels of one human being to another, it was nearly thirty years before transfusion was accepted except by medical men of high standing…Such is the inertia of the human race.”

Dr. George Crile, pioneering American surgeon


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“He had not said “Sir”. It was simply you – as though we were equals, and perhaps it bore a suggestion that he was the superior one… Most certainly these were not like the Cape coloreds. It was going to be interesting to see how these white Americans lived with their Negroes.”

Dr. Christiaan Barnard – South African surgeon who performed the world’s first human heart transplant, upon his interaction with an African-American porter after arriving on his first trip to the United States.

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“It is a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do practice.”


George Carlin – American comedian

“The decisive moment of my life came in 1884 when, at the age of seventeen, I was sent by my oldest brother, Jacob, to the Johns Hopkins University.”

Abraham Flexner – American medical educator and scholar


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“If you can’t pin it or cast it – then screw it.”

Anonymous orthopedic surgeon