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"It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has."
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"To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all."

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"He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all."

"To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle."
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