Martin H. Fischer Quotes
"Here's good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee."
- Martin H. Fischer
(Related: Work, Nature, Advice, Partnership)
"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."
- Martin H. Fischer
(Related: Work, Day, Profession)
"A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions."
- Martin H. Fischer
(Related: Rules)
"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."
- Martin H. Fischer
(Related: Work, Man, Poor, Skill)
"Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice."
- Martin H. Fischer
(Related: Beginning, End, Practice)
"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."
- Martin H. Fischer
(Related: Science, Purpose, Theory)
"Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof."
- Martin H. Fischer
(Related: Work, Truth, Practice, Proof)
"We humans are the greatest of earth's parasites."
- Martin H. Fischer
(Related: Earth)
"First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef."
- Martin H. Fischer
(Related: Death, Management, First, Reform)
"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."
- Martin H. Fischer
(Related: Balance, Doctors, Man)
"I find that most men would rather have their bellies opened for five hundred dollars than have a tooth pulled for five."
- Martin H. Fischer
(Related: Men)
"In diagnosis think of the easy first."
- Martin H. Fischer
(Related: First)
"In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science."
- Martin H. Fischer
(Related: Medical, Science, Understanding, Worth)
"None of the great discoveries was made by a 'specialist' or a 'researcher'."
- Martin H. Fischer
"Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these - it's a state of mind."
- Martin H. Fischer
(Related: Business, Mind, Necessity, Research, State)
"The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty - not marble floors and foundations."
- Martin H. Fischer
(Related: Education, Doctors, Poverty)
"There is only one reason why men become addicted to drugs - they are weak men. Only strong men are cured, and they cure themselves."
- Martin H. Fischer
(Related: Men, Cure, Drugs, Reason)
"Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature."
- Martin H. Fischer
(Related: Science, Facts, Literature)
"Whenever ideas fail, men invent words."
- Martin H. Fischer
(Related: Men, Ideas, Words)
"You must learn to talk clearly. The jargon of scientific terminology which rolls off your tongues is mental garbage."
- Martin H. Fischer
(Related: Jargon, Talk)