Every Patient You See Is

One Special Advantage Of The Skeptical Attitude Of Mind Is That A Man Is Never Vexed To Find That After All He Has Been In The Wrong.

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.

Variability Is The Law Of Life, And As No Two Faces Are The Same, So No Two Bodies Are Alike, And No Two Individuals React Alike And Behave Alike Under The Abnormal Conditions Which We Know As Disease.

In The Mortality Bills, Pneumonia Is An Easy Second, To Tuberculosis; Indeed In Many Cities The Death-rate Is Now Higher And It Has Become, To Use The Phrase Of Bunyan 'the Captain Of The Men Of Death.'