Martin H. Fischer Quotes (28 Quotes)


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

    When there is no explanation, they give it a name, which immediately explains everything.

    Some day when you have time, look into the business of prayer, amulets, baths and poultices, and discover for yourself how much valuable therapy the profession has cast on the dump.

    Medicine is the one place where all the show is stripped of the human drama. You, as doctors, will be in a position to see the human race stark naked - not only physically, but mentally and morally as well.

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


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

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

    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.


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


    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.


    If you are physically sick, you can elicit the interest of a battery of physicians but if you are mentally sick, you are lucky if the janitor comes around.

    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.

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

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



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

    Many a diabetic has stayed alive by stealing the bread denied him by his doctor.

    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.


    There is only one reason why men become addicted to drugs - they are weak men. Only strong men are cured, and they cure themselves.

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

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


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