“The first [quality] to be named must always be the power of attention, of giving one's whole mind to the patient without the interposition of anything of oneself. It sounds simple but only the very greatest doctors ever fully attain it. ... The second thing to be striven for is intuition. This sounds an impossibility, for who can control that small quiet monitor? But intuition is only interference from experience stored and not actively recalled. ... The last aptitude I shall mention that must be attained by the good physician is that of handling the sick man's mind.” MenGivingMindFirstsWholeLastsScienceSoundSimpleAttentionQualityGreatnessQuietDoctorsSickPatientSimplicityOneselfIntuitionPhysiciansImpossibilityInterferenceAptitudeSick Man Author:Wilfred Trotter
“It is necessary to guard ourselves from thinking that the practice of the scientific method enlarges the powers of the human mind. Nothing is more flatly contradicted by experience than the belief that a man distinguished in one or even more departments of science, is more likely to think sensibly about ordinary affairs than anyone else.” ThinkingMenMindHumansBeliefPracticeOrdinaryMethodAffairDepartmentHuman MindDistinguishedScientific Method Author:Wilfred Trotter
“The various systems of doctrine that have held dominion over man have been demonstrated to be true beyond all question by rationalists of such power-to name only a few-as Aquinas and Calvin and Hegel and Marx. Guided by these master hands the intellect has shown itself more deadly than cholera or bubonic plague and far more cruel. The incompatibility with one another of all the great systems of doctrine might surely be have expected to provoke some curiosity about their nature.” MenHas BeensHandsMightScienceNamesMastersCuriosityVariousIntellectExpectedDoctrineBeing TrueProvokingPlagueDominionHegelCholeraIncompatibilityBubonic Plague Author:Wilfred Trotter
