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"The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease."
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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."
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