Harvey Cushing Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“There is only one ultimate and effectual preventative for the maladies to which flesh is heir, and that is death.”
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“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.”
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“Nothing great or new can be done without enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the fly-wheel which carries your saw through the knots in the log.”
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“A certain excessiveness seems a necessary element in all greatness.”
-- Harvey Cushing
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