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“We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.”

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Rahm Emanuel is an American politician who served as the 55th Mayor of Chicago from 2011 to 2019. He is a member of the Democratic Party and has a background in politics and business. more

“The old fashioned family physician and general practitioner ... was a splendid figure and useful person in his day; but he was badly trained, he was often ignorant, he made many mistakes, for one cannot by force of character and geniality of person make a diagnosis of appendicitis, or recognize streptococcus infection.”

Persons Made Character Science Force Mistake Figures Ignorant Physicians Old Fashioned Splendid Diagnosis Infection Geniality

Author:Charles Loomis Dana

“The physician himself, if sick, actually calls in another physician, knowing that he cannot reason correctly if required to judge his own condition while suffering.”

Ifs Reason Suffering Knowing Conditions Judging Disease Sick Physicians

Author:Aristotle

“Thus we work not in the light of public opinion but in the secrecy of the chamber; and perhaps the best of us are apt at times to forget the delicacies and sincerities which under these conditions are essential to harmony and honour.”

Light Forget Opinion Conditions Essentials Harmony Honour Sincerity Physicians Public Opinion Chamber Secrecy Delicacy

Author:Clifford Allbutt

“When he can render no further aid, the physician alone can mourn as a man with his incurable patient. This is the physician's sad lot.”

Men Science Patient Aids Physicians Mourn

Author:Aretaeus of Cappadocia

“Who ever saw a doctor use the prescription of his colleague without cutting out or adding something?”

Use Saws Cutting Doctors Physicians Colleagues Prescriptions

Book:Essays

Source: Essays

“Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure.”

Natural Study Ought Advantage Labor Medicine Following Acquire Leisure Possessed Physicians Disposition Competent Tuition

Book:The Law

Source: The Law

“With the exception of lawyers, there is no profession which, considers itself above the law so widely as the medical profession.”

Law Profession Lawyer Medical Exception Physicians Medical Profession Above The Law

Author:Samuel Hopkins Adams

“In our rather stupid time, hunting is belittled and misunderstood, many refusing to see it for the vital vacation from the human condition that it is, or to acknowledge that the hunter does not hunt in order to kill; on the contrary, he kills in order to have hunted.”

Humans Doe Order Conditions Stupid Contrary Acknowledge Vacation Hunting Human Condition Hunters Hunts Misunderstood Hunted

Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset

“Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that lands like a thud on the oval office desk?”

Want Values House White Land Office Judgment Crisis White House Desks Oval Office Desk

Author:Rahm Emanuel

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