Martin H. Fischer Quotes

“Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth.”

— Martin H. Fischer

“A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession.”

— Martin H. Fischer

“We humans are the greatest of earth's parasites.”

— Martin H. Fischer

“Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.”

— Martin H. Fischer

“A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.”

— Martin H. Fischer

You must learn to talk clearly. The jargon of scientific terminology which rolls off your tongues is mental garbage.

— Martin H. Fischer

“The practice of medicine is a thinker's art the practice of surgery a plumber's.”

— Martin H. Fischer

“Don't confuse hypothesis and theory. The former is a possible explanation; the latter, the correct one. The establishment of theory is the very purpose of science.”

— Martin H. Fischer

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

— Martin H. Fischer

Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice.

— Martin H. Fischer

“In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.”

— Martin H. Fischer

“I find that most men would rather have their bellies opened for five hundred dollars than have a tooth pulled for five.”

— Martin H. Fischer

“First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef.”

— Martin H. Fischer

“Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these - it's a state of mind.”

— Martin H. Fischer

“Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature.”

— Martin H. Fischer

“Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof.”

— Martin H. Fischer

“The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty - not marble floors and foundations.”

— Martin H. Fischer

When a man lacks mental balance in pneumonia he is said to be delirious. When he lacks mental balance without the pneumonia, he is pronounced insane by all smart doctors.

— Martin H. Fischer

“Here's good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee.”

— Martin H. Fischer

“In diagnosis think of the easy first.”

— Martin H. Fischer

“A man who cannot work without his hypodermic needle is a poor doctor. The amount of narcotic you use is inversely proportional to your skill.”

— Martin H. Fischer

“Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.”

— Martin H. Fischer

“None of the great discoveries was made by a 'specialist' or a 'researcher'.”

— Martin H. Fischer