"The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient."

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Source : Abraham Flexner (1910). “Medical Education in the United States and Canada: A Report to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching”

Abraham Flexner

#Facts Quotes #Students Quotes #Patient Quotes

“I was taught from childhood of the sanctity of food. Not a piece of bread could be thrown away without kissing it and raising it to one's eyes as with all things holy.”
“With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it's much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television show than a serious novelist.”
“Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.”
“A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.”
“In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of free trade.”
“Once again the powers of light and good have triumphed over the media!”
“Everything can draw inspiration: a vintage cloth, a book, a street-when I was in Japan, I was deeply inspired by Japanese pharmacies.”
“Not many people have had as much bad luck as I have, but not many people have had as much good luck, either.”

Source : "Very Funny" by Ariel Levy, www.elle.com. March 27, 2013.

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