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"There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta."
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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
"The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely."
Experience
"It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents."
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
"No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher."
Success
"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
"There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta."
Disease
"In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions."
Truth
"The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well."
Work
"There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language."
Art
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