Winston Churchill, British prime minister, historian, and author. … [Read more...]
“Death is easy on the nursing staff and cheap for the hospital”
Anonymous … [Read more...]
“In one hundred years, surgery will be neither needed nor taught in medical schools”
Francis "Frank" E. Rosato, MD - American surgeon … [Read more...]
“Many people like their doctors moldy like their cheese”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, MD … [Read more...]
“Once you start studying medicine, you never get through with it.”
Charles H. Mayo, MD … [Read more...]
“Young surgeons err in believing that knowledge can compensate for lack of experience; old surgeons err in believing that experience can compensate for knowledge.”
Anonymous … [Read more...]
“The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.”
Sir William Osler (1849-1919), Legendary "Founding Father" of Johns Hopkins Hospital … [Read more...]
“War is the only proper school for surgeons.”
Hippocrates Greek physician and author of professional oath taken by all physicians upon starting practice Related Posts French Military … [Read more...]
“It has been a long time since I have helped a very sick patient get well. It is the most rewarding experience one can have with the possible exception of seeing one of the boys we train turn out well. The latter is less acute but more lasting perhaps.”
Jonathon Rhoades, MD, inventor of hyperalimentation and peritoneal dialysis, on his recovery from tuberculosis in 1947. … [Read more...]
“Your doctrine, Professor, is based on upon the corpses of parturient women murdered out of ignornace. If you think my theory wrong, I challenge you to communicate to me your reasons… But should you continue, without having refuted my theory, to teach your purpils the theory of epidemic puerperal fever, I declare you a murderer before God and the world.
Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis, to Professor Scanzoni. Semmelweiss was the originatior of the idea that the unclean hands of physicians spread disease, … [Read more...]
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