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...it is much easier to make a wrong diagnosis than it is to unmake it.

— Francis Peabody The Care of the Patient ; Journal of the American Medical Association (1927)

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My own professional and personal experience has shown me that morphine is the gift of God, but depending upon how it is used it may be either “God’s Own Medicine” or “The Devil’s Own Poison.”

Notes on the Effect of Morphine (1927)

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