Martin H. Fischer Quotes

I find that most men would rather have their bellies opened for five hundred dollars than have a tooth pulled for five.

Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice.

Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.

We humans are the greatest of earth's parasites.

None of the great discoveries was made by a 'specialist' or a 'researcher'.

In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.

Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature.

You must learn to talk clearly. The jargon of scientific terminology which rolls off your tongues is mental garbage.

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

In diagnosis think of the easy first.

A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.

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.

Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these - it's a state of mind.

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.

Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.

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

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

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

Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth.

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

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