Quotes by Martin Fischer

• The practice of medicine is a thinker's art the practice of surgery a plumber's.
• Here's good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee.
• 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.
• A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.
• A man who cannot work without his hypodermic needle is a poor doctor. The amount of narcotic you use is inversely proportional to your skill.
• Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice.
• Don't confuse hypothesis and theory. The former is a possible explanation; the latter, the correct one. The establishment of theory is the very purpose of science.
• Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof.
• We humans are the greatest of earth's parasites.
• When a man lacks mental balance in pneumonia he is said to be delirious. When he lacks mental balance without the pneumonia, he is pronounced insane by all smart doctors.
• I find that most men would rather have their bellies opened for five hundred dollars than have a tooth pulled for five.
• In diagnosis think of the easy first.
• In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.
• None of the great discoveries was made by a 'specialist' or a 'researcher'.
• Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these - it's a state of mind.
• The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty - not marble floors and foundations.
• Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature.
• Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.
• You must learn to talk clearly. The jargon of scientific terminology which rolls off your tongues is mental garbage.
• A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
• Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.
• Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.