It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.

It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.

There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.

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.

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.

A physician who treats himself has a fool for a patient.