Listen To Your Patient, He Is Telling

Things Cannot Always Go Your Way. Learn To Accept In Silence The Minor Aggravations, Cultivate The Gift Of Taciturnity And Consume Your Own Smoke With An Extra Draught Of Hard Work, So That Those About You May Not Be Annoyed With The Dust And Soot Of Your Complaints.

Care More For The Individual Patient Than For The Special Features Of The Disease. . . . Put Yourself In His Place . . . The Kindly Word, The Cheerful Greeting, The Sympathetic Look - These The Patient Understands.

Medicine Is A Science Of Uncertainty And An Art Of Probability.

As It Can Be Maintained That All The Great Advances Have Come From Men Under Forty, So The History Of The World Shows That A Very Large Proportion Of The Evils May Be Traced To The Sexagenarians, Nearly All The Great Mistakes Politically And Socially, All Of The Worst Poems, Most Of The Bad Pictures, A Majority Of The Bad Novels And Not A Few Of The Bad Sermons And Speeches.

Patients Rarely Die Of The Disease From Which They Suffer. Secondary Or Terminal Infections Are The Real Cause Of Death.