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"The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease."
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"I feel coming on a strange disease - humility."
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"A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a chisel for humility."
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"In 1962 I was diagnosed with this incurable disease."
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"Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease."
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"Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press."
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"Gout produces calculus in the kidney... the patient has frequently to entertain the painful speculation as to whether gout or stone be the worst disease. Sometimes the stone, on passing, kills the patient, without waiting for the gout."
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"I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread."
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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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"The dancing sickness took place during the latter part of the fifteenth century. Bubonic plague--the black death--decimated Europe near the end of the fourteenth. Whooping cough near the end of the seventeenth, and the first known outbreaks of influenza near the end of the nineteenth. We've become so used to the idea of the flu--it seems almost like the common cold to us, doesn't it?--that no one but the historians seem to know that a hundred years ago it didn't exist."
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"I confidently affirm that the greater part of those who are supposed to have died of gout, have died of the medicine rather than the disease - a statement in which I am supported by observation."
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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."
Books
"Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert."
Practice
"It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has."
Disease
"The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease."
Disease
"Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants."
Common sense
"Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability."
Art
"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."
Books
"There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs."
Truth
"The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget."
Man
"The future is today."
Future
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