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A physician who treats himself has a fool for a patient.


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No man is really happy or safe without a hobby.

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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.

He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.



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Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.



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The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.



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