Harvey Cushing famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he must view the man in his world.
-- Harvey Cushing

#Men #Views #Physicians
I would like to see the day when somebody would be appointed surgeon somewhere who had no hands, for the operative part is the least part of the work.
-- Harvey Cushing

#Hands #Would Be #Surgeons
The capacity of man himself is only revealed when, under stress and responsibility, he breaks through his educational shell, and he may then be a splendid surprise to himself no less than to this teachers.
-- Harvey Cushing

#Teacher #Stress #Educational
Standardization of our educational systems [which includes testing]is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up.
-- Harvey Cushing

#Educational #Individualism #Defeat
There is only one ultimate and effectual preventative for the maladies to which flesh is heir, and that is death.
-- Harvey Cushing

#Flesh #Heirs #Ultimate
In these days when science is clearly in the saddle and when our knowledge of disease is advancing at a breathless pace, we are apt to forget that not all can ride and that he also serves who waits and who applies what the horseman discovers.
-- Harvey Cushing

#Waiting #Pace #Disease
Nothing great or new can be done without enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the fly-wheel which carries your saw through the knots in the log.
-- Harvey Cushing

#Done #Enthusiasm #Saws
A certain excessiveness seems a necessary element in all greatness.
-- Harvey Cushing

#Greatness #Elements #Certain

He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back
A devotee should be fixed in the conclusion that, the spiritual master cannot be subject to criticism and should never be considered equal to a common man.
In Britain, you never get away from the fact that you're a foreigner. In the U.S., the view is it doesn't matter where you come from.
No great thought, no great object, satisfies the mind at first view, nor at the last.
My earlier views of the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures have become clearer and stronger with advancing years, and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them.
If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution.
The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.
Keep away from physicians. It is all probing and guessing and pretending with them. They leave it to Nature to cure in her own time, but they take the credit. As well as very fat fees.
In the wake of the Supreme Court of Canada decision (Chaoulli-Zeliotis), the Canadian Medicare system is about to be redesigned. Physicians must not just sit at the table, but must position themselves at the head, where they can lead and direct the nature of that design.

Harvey Cushing famous quotes

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