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

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

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.

Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom. Let not your conceptions of disease come from words heard in the lecture room or read from the book. See, and then reason and compare and control. But see first.

The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.