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" Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof. "

Martin H. Fischer

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" The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty - not marble floors and foundations. "

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" Here's good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee. "

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" The practice of medicine is a thinker's art the practice of surgery a plumber's. "

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" A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession. "

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" First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef. "

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" A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking. "

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