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"There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta."
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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."
"I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it."
"When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured."
"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."
"Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press."
"Point set topology is a disease from which the human race will soon recover."
"It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass."
"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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"It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents."
"In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions."
"It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has."
"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."
"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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