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Martin H. Fischer Quotes

1879–1962 Germany

Martin Henry Fischer (10 November 1879 – 19 January 1962) was a German-born American physician and author. He is most famous for his teachings on the art and practice of medicine, including the famed quotation often recited on the first day of medical school, "A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week.

Germany
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Physicians

Random Martin H. Fischer quote

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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

A machine has value only as it produces more than it consumes — so check your value to the community.

A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.

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.

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

Fischerisms (1944)

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

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

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The specialist is a man who fears other subjects.

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

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Facts are not science — as the dictionary is not literature.

Fischerisms (1944)

Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice.

Fischerisms (1944)

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

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Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these — it's a state of mind.

Fischerisms (1944)

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

Fischerisms (1944)

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.

Fischerisms (1944)

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

Fischerisms (1944)

" Any man who does not make himself proficient in at least two languages other than his own is a fool"

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Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.

Fischerisms (1944)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Martin H. Fischer (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.