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The conditions necessary for the surgeon are four: first, he should be learned: second, he should be expert: third, he must be ingenious, and fourth, he should be able to adapt himself.

~ Ars Chururgic Introduction (by Guy de Chauliac, 1300-1368)

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The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. ~Thomas Edison

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Of all the lessons which a young man entering upon the profession of medicine needs to learn, this is perhaps the first – that he should resist the fascination of doctrines and hypotheses till he has won the privilege of such studies by honest labour and faithful pursuit of real and useful knowledge. 

~ William Beaumont

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“There are only two sorts of doctors: those who practice with their brains, and those who practice with their tongues.”

~Sir William Osler

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"The pleasure of a physician is little, the gratitude of patients is rare and even rarer is material reward, but, these things never deter the student who feels the call within him" ~ Theodor Billroth (1829-1894)

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