Medicine Is A Science Of Uncertainty And

Now Of The Difficulties Bound Up With The Public In Which We Doctors Work, I Hesitate To Speak In A Mixed Audience. Common Sense In Matters Medical Is Rare, And Is Usually In Inverse Ratio To The Degree Of Education.

To Know Just What Has Do Be Done, Then To Do It, Comprises The Whole Philosophy Of Practical Life.

The Practice Of Medicine Will Be Very Much As You Make It - To One A Worry, A Care, A Perpetual Annoyance; To Another, A Daily Job And A Life Of As Much Happiness And Usefulness As Can Well Fall To The Lot Of Man, Because It Is A Life Of Self-sacrifice And Of Countless Opportunities To Comfort And Help The Weak-hearted, And To Raise Up Those That Fall.

The Very First Step Toward Success In Any Occupation Is To Become Interested In It. Locke Put This In A Very Happy Way When He Said, Give A Pupil "a Relish Of Knowledge" And You Put Life Into His Work.

There Is A Form Of Laughter That Springs From The Heart, Heard Every Day In The Merry Voice Of Childhood, The Expression Of A Laughter - Loving Spirit That Defies Analysis By The Philosopher, Which Has Nothing Rigid Or Mechanical In It, And Totally Without Social Significance. Bubbling Spontaneously From The Heart Of Child Or Man. Without Egotism And Full Of Feeling, Laughter Is The Music Of Life.